Anonymous 7843 wrote:
Coos Haak wrote:
Next time, repeat the subject in the message itself.
No. There is no posting guideline to that effect in comp.lang.c
or for usenet in general. You are not in a position to create
new guidelines.
There are numerous newsreaders (software or in person) that don't
read the subject line.
The subject lines are there for a reason and if you or your newsreader
chooses to ignore them it is not my concern.
e.g.
http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html#ps1QSub
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Another Usenet convention holds that the Subject header should not be
expected to be available to a reader of any message. While it is
unlikely that there are any newsreaders currently in use in which the
user is not presented with the Subject header, it remains inappropriate
to ask a question in the subject header (or to assume that its contents
will provide supplementary information about a question) and doing so is
as likely to invoke a lesson in Usenet etiquette as an answer to the
question. But a question is not really a subject anyway. The subject
should describe what the question is in relation to, and is useful for
archive searching and categorisation rather than as a means of
communication.
Any question asked should always appear in the body of the post, and in
a form that does not assume the availability of the Subject header to
the reader.
The Subject header should also not be wasted. Placing "please help" and
the like in the subject header is unwelcome and counterproducti ve. Take
the opportunity to construct a Subject header that states the type of
the problem, what it relates to. Subject headers that state the real
subject will attract the attention of people with a special interest in
that subject, exactly those people best able to offer help.
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