At 07:53 AM 3/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > Please put all relevant information in the message body.
>
>To put it bluntly, why?  That is what a subject line is for.  Otherwise,
>you are wasting time and bandwidth by saying the same thing twice.  Is
>the subject line terribly difficult for you to read on your email
>reader?  I'm not trying to be rude.  I just don't understand.

Simply because it's easy to miss in the subject line. The query should be
self-contained in the message body, and not dependent on the subject line,
even if that involves repeating the information.

If you want good answers, make it easier on those doing the answering.

Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
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