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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: descriptive Subject:'s please (and prune those quotes)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.135142.17166@rwwa.COM>
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- Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
- References: <MeeK4CS00Vp801tSYg@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Sep8.065350.22589@pegasus.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:51:42 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Sep8.065350.22589@pegasus.com>,
- richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
-
- | Do yourself and others a favor by selecting an appropriate `Subject:'
- | line, so that people don't waste time reading things that aren't of
- | interest to them or questions that they can't answer.
-
- To which Bob adds the gripe:
-
- Those who followup articles: Please don't quote the *entire* article
- you are following up; Select a few lines that are appropriate for your
- followup. There are some people here who are fond of quoting 150 line
- articles and appending 2 lines of answer. You will find that there
- are grumps like me who will N an article if there isn't non-quoted text
- on the first page or so.
-
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