[xsl] Subject lines and replies to messages

[Mulberry Technologies List Owner <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friends --

A few bits of information:

  - Subject lines are very important on XSL-List.

  - Threaded discussions, which are created by replying to messages
    are very convenient for many readers.

  - Some people subscribe to the digest version of the list, in
    which they get one message a day containing all of the postings
    for the previous 24 hours.

It is helpful if subscribers to the regular list REPLY when they
are responding to a post, so that the discussion is threaded.

It is NOT helpful when subscribers to the digest version REPLY, because
they don't have the individual message to reply to. When they REPLY,
they end up with meaningless subject lines (the header from the digest)
and the thread is broken anyway.

So, in the future:

  1. If you are a regular list subscriber, please REPLY to the message
     you are responding to.

  2. If you are a digest subscriber, please paste the subject line
     of the message to which you are responding into your subject
     line.

  3. If you want to criticize the list manners of someone on
     XSL-List, please send mail to the list owner (me) and
     I will pass it on if it seems reasonable.

     Fussing at a subscriber for pasting in the subject header is
     not helpful; it leads to people replying to the digest in an
     effort to be cooperative. Then their messages have useless
     subject lines AND are disconnected from the thread.

-- Tommie
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B. Tommie Usdin                        mailto:btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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