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- From: plph@engin.umich.edu (Mark Montague)
- Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:47:12 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan11.203859.20237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <bkBSb$li@twinsun.com>
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- In article <bkBSb$li@twinsun.com> junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano) writes:
- >Here is a better and simpler way to do this. Let's put the
- >following sentence somewhere in the FAQ.
- >
- > When you ask questions in c.o.l., put an extra `.'
- > (period) character after `?' in your subject line. This
- > tells people that you _have_ read the FAQ, so that
- > helpful linuxers can ignore questions from people who
- > haven't even read the FAQ and don't follow this
- > convention.
- >
- >;-)
- >--
- > |
- > __-+-__ Jun Hamano
- >_-+ (|o|) +-_ junio@twinsun.com
- > ! . !
-
- VERY good idea! I hope this is made a standard policy.
-
- Mark Montague
- plph@caen.engin.umich.edu
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