Suggestion regarding "no subject"
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Nov 21 19:19:59 UTC 2003
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:43:42AM -0800, Don wrote:
>
> Messages without subjects are a point of frustration for a lot of
> people. Right up there with "It doesn't work" as a problem
> description.
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> What would it take for the list server to simply reject posts without
> a subject back to the sender. That way the "no subject" message never
> gets distributed.
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> It obviously doesn't prevent someone from using "no subject", but if
> somebody does that intentionally they deserve to get "no reply"
> either. ;-)
If you do this, send the culprit a message explaining why the messages
is being rejected, and, perhaps, point the culprit to a page on
netiquette, such as http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html
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