Here, here! I totally agree with this suggestion.
This request has also spurred me to ask that folks also put what they are
talking about in the body of the message, if the subject is long. Quite
often if someone has been looking for a book, or announcing an upload, they
put the critical information in the subject, but then don't mention what
they are referring to again in the body of their message. After the space
taken up by a long user name, and Re: [bksvol-discuss] the real subject
matter gets truncated. It's then necessary to scroll back through the
header after reading the message to see what the person is talking about.
I know this is only a minor inconvenience, but I cringe whenever I have to
muddle through the header information searching for dates or subjects. I
realize that I'm callous, but I don't really care what program created the
message, what virus checking it has already been through, what priority it
has, etc.
I certainly concede this is insignificant when compared with messages such
as jokes that have been forwarded from friends which have already been
forwarded umpteen times, and the ratio of header to message is in the ratio
of 12 to 1. Getting them to strip the header from messages they forward
however, is a project for another day.
Dave
---I'd like to suggest that when we hit "reply" to send a message to the group, that if the subject is going to be different from the one we're using to reply, we change the subject heading. A reader who isn't interested in a subject -- perhaps it's technical or he/she doesn't have the problem mentioned -- will delete it -- but maybe the actual content will be of interest to that reader.
Cindy
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