Date: 20 Apr 2002 10:59:45 -0700 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What the devil is this POLA thing?? Message-ID: <ryadryw8ry.dry@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020420142025.GB450@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020420060746.A13570@sheol.localdomain> <20020420142025.GB450@hades.hell.gr>
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> From: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> Subject: Re: What the devil is this POLA thing?? Date: 20 Apr 2002 17:54 UTC Cc: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: > PS: You shouldn't depend on the fact that my mailer shows the subject > line with the body of the message. Email messages are expected to > include in their body, well, a body, and not just a salutation. Your > message violates POLA, by not doing so. > > /me ducks and runs laughing ;) You mean I can no longer write things like "The subject question is answered in the Hacker's Dictionary."? I have to repeat the question? You mean I have to add to the body things like "Dear Giorgos" and "Petulantly yours, Gary" -- how about a date in the upper right corner? Might as well require that it use nice, easy-to-read outline fonts, too -- and be formatted for easy printing. Bad ideas, all. People should assume that people's MUA shows them at least the "Subject:", "To:", "From:", "Cc:", and "Date:" header lines and that other MUAs are in need of fixing or replacement. P.S. And while I'm ranting: FreeBSD.org should be ashamed of themselves for adding content to the bodies of our messages. Especially such low-value content. Grrr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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