> 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.

        Might I also add that it is a matter of screen size. If a subject is too
long it is "inconvenient" for me to extract the whole subject (I use the
preview pane in Outlook exclusively, only time I "open" a message is if it
has an attachment I want to save which the preview pane will automatically
open), so if the body doesn't contain the needed information I will usually
just skip the message. Since everybody's screen is a different size it is
wise to use the subject line as a "title", all the meat should be in the
body. TTYL

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