If you want people to read your question of comment ...
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A. Kiernan) writes:
>The comp.lang.basic.misc. newsgroup gets a large number of
?postings every day -
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>129 today, for example.
The great majority have a completely useless Subject
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>line
such as "BASIC question" or "Please help," and this gets
perpetuated in
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>the replies. There may be some readers who
look at everything, but surely
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>most of us are guided by
the Subject line.
Good point, I often decide what to read and what gets deleted by the subject
line also. Unless it is a "Please Help" subject that somebody cares about (eg
people reply) I'd usually read it, but starting off by naming the
compiler/interpreter, the type of problem it deals with (IO, graphics, etc) is
a good idea.
I'm sure I've probably missed a few good posts because they had titles such as
"Hey everybody", "Hi", dozens of exclamation points, the word "cash" in the
title, etc.
Dan
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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
