On Thu, 18 May 2000 03:54:48 +1000, rellieb-cal wrote:
> BTW. On the thread about alerts to Subject Lines, I urge newbies to
> think creative about their subject lines. It is the best part of the
> message. The body is oft-full hack work, pedestrian, long-winded,
> verbose, prolix, holding irrelevant PGP paranoia tagging, bulky
> signatures, wacked formatting, and over-quoting.
Are you speaking of your own messages; and is this why you're so in love
with the subject header? Hmmm? :-/
> The subject line by contrast is where the beauty and the brevity lies.
> It is the succinct creative heart of the message - an earnest cry from
> the depths of the loneliness of near-anonymity and isolation of the
> solitary computer desk. A desperate cry or plead to be acknowledged on
> the rat-race of the information superhighway.
> So I urge people to look forward to filling in the subject line, as it
> is the culmination and release after the after the laborious travail
> of writing the body. No email client should have to entice one to the
> delights of the subject line. It is unnatural to have to entice or
> enforce one toward this pleasure that awaits your embrace.
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