On Thursday, February 18, 2010, Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote: > Rachel Resnick wrote: > > It would be helpful (at least, to me) if folks asking for help with > specific problems summarize those problems with a few words in the > subject line. Then I could tell without having to open the message > whether the duscussion is relevant to my needs as well and I should > archive the conversation, or whether I might be able to help the > person asking for help. > > > > > Unfortunately we have no way of enforcing anything like that. The kind of > channeling that you suggest is currently part of forum usage, and could also > be dealt with if all the requests for help were coming through a web > interface, but they come from a wide number of access points (and as far as > I've been able to determine, there's no definitive list of these). A fully > moderated list where the moderators could modify the subject could also work. > But as it is, the best available mechanism apparently is for somebody who is > responding to change the subject line to something meaningful, and that often > doesn't happen because the responder is thinking only about the response > itself. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Thanks for your response. At least I have put it out there, and those who might agree with my request might set a good example for others to follow.
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