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Should we expect anything else from people that were once only allowed 6 character variable names, and are still only allowed 10-character file names?
Ok, you're right, we should. ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jde iSeries
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Subject Header lines on many messages are too short, cryptic, worthless, misleading, non-intuitive and basically useless
Subject Header lines on many messages are too short, cryptic, worthless,
misleading, non-intuitive and basically useless
Good grief, guys, put a subject header on your messages that is meaningful,
so that we can understand what the topic and thread will be, and will still
be understandable and meaningful two years from now when someone is
searching the archive or if using a search engine to search.
Many of the messages posted on midrange have such short, cryptic headers
that no one knows what the message is about unless you open and read the
message.
Suggestion: Devote some time to distilling the essence of your message to a
cogent, clear statement that encompasses what your message is about. use
that for your subject header.
The subject line can include a lot more words and information than what most
supply.
Don't be so blasted cryptic with your 1 and 2 word subject headers.
Pause a minute before submitting a new message and compose a great subject
header.
For examples of insightful, informative, interesting, and compelling message
subject lines that grab the reader's attention, read any social news site
like digg.com or reddit.com or slashdot.org.
Messages on those sites have better subject headers than many here.
Use the inverted pyramid approach that good newspaper articles use in that a
good subject header to a message or article conveys much of the essence of
the article.
And don't get me started on crappy subject lines like this one---> Re:
Fwd: Re: NSF Was: Reasons to Upgrade to V6R1
The subject header on this very message is pretty good at conveying to you
what the message is about
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