SPUG: Reevaluation of Email Subject

[Meryll Larkin]

9/17/01

I get lots of email, and I know you do, too because
you are on this same list.  

I like to sort my email by subject so that I can
follow threads, particularly when information about
meetings or pieces of code is being passed around.

I would like to request that when we are posting a
response to a side comment rather than the main topic
of an email, that we reevaluate the subject heading of
that email, and send it with an appropriate subject
for the contents of the email.  If we want to help our
comrade SPUGsters find the original reference, we can
note the thread heading within the email for example:

Subject was:  
Re: Sept. Meeting: Lightning Strikes SPUG!

--- David Dyck <dcd at tc.fluke.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
> 
> > I think Benjamin Franklin once closed a letter
> with "Sorry this is so long,
> > I didn't have time to make it shorter."
> 
> http://www.cyberquotations.com/quotes8.htm.
>  I have made this letter longer than usual because I
> lack the time to
>  make it shorter.--Blaise Pascal
> 
>   or
> 
> 
> 
> Blaise Pascal
> 
>      Je n'ai fait plus longue que parce que je n'ai
> par eu le loisir de
>      la faire plus courte.
> 
>      variously translated, including
> 
>          I have made this letter longer than usual,
> only because I have
>          not had the time to make it shorter.
> 
>      and
> 
>          I am sorry for the length of my letter, but
> I had not the time
>          to write a short one.
> 
> 	    -- Lettres provinciales, letter 16 (1657)
> 
> 



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