On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:28:34AM -0800, Todd Walton wrote: ... > It confuses me when people start writing in the subject line and then > just pick up again in the body. I had a friend, new to computers, who > put her entire email message into the subject, just to mess with me.
I agree that it's a bad idea to just pick up again in the body. On the other hand I don't see anything wrong with having the whole message in the subject. You need to make it obvious what you are doing and you don't want a subject too long for the recipient's setup. The intention is that the recipient never needs to view the body. (A too-short subject that doesn't make sense out of context could make trouble if received unexpectedly.) I don't mind if someone sometimes writes: ---Subject: a minus sign sounds good ---Lines: 0 Since mutt doesn't like sending empty bodies(?), I do things like writing: ---Subject: a minus sign sounds good (body not useful) ---Lines: 1 ... ---See subject. Just make sure the recipient isn't given false expectations. On a list I would use extraordinary caution. Thanks Stewart Strait -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
