Tennessee Leeuwenburg <[email protected]> writes: > I've been bitten by writing content into the subject line before. I > still can't understand why people won't grok it along with the rest of > the email,
If you can understand why a reader of a newspaper article doesn't just assume the headline is the first line of the content, or why the preview of a movie isn't treated as the first forty seconds of the movie, you'll understand why we treat the body as distinct from the Subject. The Subject field should be a snappy summary of the message – ideally, a snappy summary of the intended thread of discussion to follow. The body itself should be distinct from that, and make sense without the summary. -- \ “In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't | `\ danced on television.” —Erma Bombeck | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
