Posting - subject lines etc (response to Dee)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 3638

I'm assuming Caius Marcius pressed reply without saying anything and
repeated Dee's earlier post.

Anyway, Dee had said:-

>I have to remember to change that subject line to relate to what I am typing
>about, not to just blindly click reply, cause it is frustrating.  (Neil,
>have I annoyed you and Nick yet terribly with that habit?  Or Penny and
>Melanie?)

Oh dear.  Do I seem particularly irritated by such things? I'm sure everyone
gets annoyed if the subject line of a message isn't relevant.  

Personally, I'm not so keen on the combining of topics in one post, but we
did agree to do that because of the sheer volume of posting. It makes
scanning for the FAQs more difficult if, for example, an interesting comment
on Snape is buried in a post labelled "Re: Re: My back yard (OT)"

A couple of other points, which I hope Penny and Melanie would support (and
they are the Moderators here for those who didn't know that):-
  
- I don't think it's necessary to include a mile long original when making a
reply of a few lines;

- When replying to someone else, it's worth naming the person who made the
original comments and indicating what they were saying (cutting out anything
irrelevant if possible); 

- Um. Make sure you type something before hitting reply <g>.

BTW, I'm not claiming to be perfect myself and I think most people here are
pretty careful.  Occasionally, though, there are posts where it's really
hard to tell who said what about what, and when. 

Neil


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