On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Charles Rezsonya wrote:
> i think the email should be sorted by date received and not by subject line.
I don't see anyone talking about message sorting. Use a little common
sense here.. obviously, a subject line of:
1. Subject: HELP, Newbie, URGENT!!!!!!
is going to be passed over for one that is more descriptive:
2. Subject: Table drawing, problems with TblSetColumnWidth
When you see the first subject line, you think, "well, there's someone who
obviously hasn't tried to help themselves out first, and I'll probably
have to bounce 5 emails back and forth just trying to figure out what OS
thier developing for".
The second line conveys, "This person at least knows enough to narrow
their problem down to a specific problem, and, since they had a good
subject line, probably included all the information I need in the body of
the message".
The 1st one means a lot more work to help someone who is going to be a
pain to deal with. The 2nd one means (probably) a quick answer about
something that just didn't seem obvious.
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Brian Mathis
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