A gentle reminder from a gentlemen.
Sent from my Verizon iPhone! On Jul 5, 2012, at 2:37 PM, "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hiya all. For those of you in the U.S. I hope you had a great 4th of July > celebrating the country's birthday. For those outside of the U.S. who might > also celebrate it, I hope it was good as well. For those who don't celebrate > the US. birthday, I still hope you had a great day. Yesterday we spent it > getting a swimming pool for the family. I think the maintenance is going to > cost more than the pool. Oh, now onto the reason for this post? See? I wrote > about subject lines and I'm not even talking about subject lines. I'm sure it > can be quite annoying to some when you open a message with topic X and it > discusses Y. > > So, the reason I'm posting this is to remind people to make your subject > lines meaningful to the message. For example I recently saw a couple of > threads called "question" and "hi". Those are generic threads. I mean, isn't > the list to ask questions? So, by that definition, should all subjects be > "question"? Oh no, here goes my sarcasm again. In any case, since there are > over 1300 members on the list, and since many members are subscribed to many > other lists, it's highly important to make your subject lines descriptive. > This way, members who browse by subject only can answer your question if it's > clear what you are writing about. When I don't moderate a list, I usually > skip the help or question subject topics and realize of course that I might > have missed a chance to answer something, or missed out on some great > information. To those of you who still answer questions even if the subject > is vague or generic, my hat's off to you. That takes extra time. > > So, all I'm asking is that you stop and think before you send. Sometimes what > I do is write my message first and then go and fill in the subject. I find > that after writing my problem or question down, it's most fresh in my mind > and then I can come up with a better subject line. This way it's not so > generic. And it doesn't even have to be a long subject. Good examples are > "help with Voxie pro" or "what is a good grilling app" or "moving apps across > the screen" or "creating folders". > > Thanks, and everyone, please enjoy the 5th of July. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos - VIPhone Moderator > The best job I ever had was at a bank, I was bringing home $5,000 a month... > but then they caught me. > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
