At 12:07 AM -0400 6/14/2009, Stanton Mitrany wrote: >Top-posting forces your reader to work . . . >__________ > >It's been my impression that those who participate in the posts on >these lists: > >- Usually compose Subject: lines which are a reasonably informative >description of the issue within the message.
yes. Folx here are pretty good with that. But we do have a lot of thread drift and hijacking, so the subject line is not the beat-all end-all. >- If reading any particular post in a thread, we have usually already >become familiar with the discussion thus far by reading the earlier >comments on an issue. Consider your audience. YOU may have a good understanding of what's in a thread, because you're the OP or it's one of the FEW you've followed. But the people providing the detailed tech support - they follow dozens or hundreds of threads in multiple venues. No way can they keep up with all those contexts. When seeking tech support, they're your target audience. The sooner you get them in context, past the noise, the sooner you get a useful answer. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
