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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: few more questions
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:48:18 +1100
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Just cleaning up my mailbox, found this unansewered...

I took the single question pre mail as a corollary to
"Use meaningful, specific subject headers". If you have two questions(*)
then a meaningful specific subject header becomes much less likely.

(*) Questions in the sense of a group of tightly bound statements and
requests, not in the sense of a single sentence with a '?' tacked on the
end.

Rob

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: few more questions


> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > IIRC it is in the ESR document. Hmm.
>
>
> Well, he says hackers don't like open-ended time sinks.  He also says
> subject lines should be descriptive.  But I *don't* see where he says
that
> a single message should not contain multiple questions.  Wanna give me
the
> section reference where he says that?
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>


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