How about those e-mail which specify the problem in the subject line only or does not use a subject line at all.
Is it practicable and desirable to simply bounce back an e-mail to the sender with a message to read the posting guide if either the subject line is empty or body is empty. Or this simply rude ? On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:52, Martin Maechler wrote: > Hi Kevin, > {and R-help readers: Kevin's (privatae) question is a quite > relevant one to this sidetrack topic of "mailing list netiquette"} > > >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:37:39 +1000 (EST) writes: > > Kevin> Just out of interest, what about those posts with (no > Kevin> subject) as the subject? Sometimes I would change > Kevin> the subject so it fits the body...is it recommended? > > yes, I'd recommend it --- IFF --- your e-mail system is good > enough to set / augment the (usually invisible) headers > "References:" and "In-Reply-To:". > > AFAIK, by official standards, these are used for threading > (if available) rather than the subjects. > > Martin > > Kevin> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Martin Maechler wrote: > > >> Dear S, > >> > >> when posting something to R-help or bioconductor, > >> please do *NOT* reply to an existing message and add a new > >> subject!!! {it breaks threads for most e-mail system that use > >> threads, including the threaded archives, see, e.g. > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2004-August/thread.html > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html