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Re: few more questions
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>,"Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:50:47 +1100
- Subject: Re: few more questions
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Answering my own comment...
Digging back into the thread for completeness, Chris suggested you send
your one-question per email assertion to ESR for inclusion. I concur,
because while it's an obvious corollary to a hacker, it's likely to be
non obvious to those who will gain the most benefit from the essay in
the first place.
Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:48 AM
Subject: Re: few more questions
> 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
>
> ===
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
> To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.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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