[jats-list] Subject lines on JATS-List postings

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear JATS-List subscribers --

Please try to provide an informative title or subject line on all 
JATS-List posts. Good subject lines - those that describe the subject 
matter of your message - not only increase the chances that you will 
receive answers to questions or responses to comments, they also make 
your message and any replies to it accessible in the list archives.

A good way to write a subject line is to write the message first and 
then form the subject line from the phrase(s) in the text of the 
message that most clearly identify your topic. These often occur 
after any "introductory" sentences, at the start of the real 
description of what you are trying to do.

And, specifically to subscribers to the digest version of the list, 
please do not simply reply to the digest. Instead:

  * to start a new topic, create a new email message with a descriptive
    subject line, and send the message to <jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

  * to reply to a message you saw in a digest, create a new email
    message, copy the subject line of the message to which you are
    responding as the subject line of your email, and copy only as
    much of the previous message as needed to give your posting
    context into your email. Then post your new message to
    <jats-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To encourage informative subject lines, I have changed the list 
settings so that messages with the Digest subject line (other than 
the original digest) will bounce.

-- Tommie
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