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Re: on writing subject lines

From Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.misc
Subject Re: on writing subject lines
Date 2023-12-03 14:05 -0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <877clvw71x.fsf@yaxenu.org> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <uddvnt$3a9si$1@dont-email.me> <ude6v5$3av40$2@dont-email.me> <fVDKthnhfJ8657wgg@bongo-ra.co> <87v89fwa07.fsf_-_@yaxenu.org> <ukib06$2sdq4$1@dont-email.me>

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Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:

> On Sun, 03 Dec 2023 13:01:28 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
>> So we can sort of blame that partly on the user interfaces.  Somehow,
>> the subject line should come as a last step.  That might be one of the
>> reasons lay people love the new proprietary software for conversations
>> --- they don't ask them to solve hard problems.  On the contrary: they
>> force them not to solve them.  (You don't have much to say?  No problem:
>> we won't let you write more than n characters anyway.)
>
> Even worse, these modern interfaces often /force/ people to post, 
> inundating the medium with trivial chatter. ("You don't have anything to 
> say? Too bad; you need to post /something/ in order to keep your account 
> open.")

That's wild.  (I had no idea.)  Some things such as education and
communities can never be guided by commerce.  It has to come from within
the community itself.  If it ever becomes commercial, then we should
backtrack.

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on writing subject lines (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c) Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-03 13:01 -0300
  Re: on writing subject lines (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2023-12-03 16:39 +0000
    Re: on writing subject lines Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-03 14:05 -0300
    Re: on writing subject lines (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c) candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> - 2023-12-03 14:42 -0600
      Re: on writing subject lines (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c) kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-12-04 23:46 +0000
        Re: on writing subject lines (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c) Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-05 14:53 -0300
          Re: on writing subject lines Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-05 15:25 -0300
            Re: on writing subject lines scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-12-05 19:33 +0000
  Re: on writing subject lines (Was: Re: Recent spam on comp.lang.c) Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2023-12-03 21:29 +0000
    Re: on writing subject lines Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-04 20:34 -0300
      Re: on writing subject lines Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-05 14:18 -0600
        Re: on writing subject lines Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-05 18:22 -0300
          Re: on writing subject lines scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-12-05 21:36 +0000
            Re: on writing subject lines Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-05 15:46 -0600
          Re: on writing subject lines Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-12-05 15:45 -0600
            Re: on writing subject lines Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-05 19:10 -0300
          Re: on writing subject lines Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2023-12-05 21:45 +0000
          Re: on writing subject lines Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 14:40 -0800
          Re: on writing subject lines Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> - 2023-12-06 06:54 +0000

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