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Re: How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you seen this inside....]

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On 6/20/20 11:07 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 03:53:08PM +1000, David wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Because your chosen Subject Header just looks like
>> annoying click-bait, and we don't want that here.
> This is actually an important point, so let me offer
> another perspective, to complement yours.
>
> Here's the original subject again:
>
>      have you seen this inside....
>
> And now, dear OP (Seeds Notoneofmy), try to walk a couple of
> meters/yards in some random list reader's shoes: this list has
> (very roughly) 1000 mails/month [1]. That means about 30 mails/day.
>
> Someone picking mails will see one mail/line, with some hints from
> its metadata: sender, subject, etc. and will decide, based on
> them "oh, I do know something about this topic, I'll see whether
> I can help" or, for example: "oh, this gal/guy has always interesting
> posts, gotta read that"... or whatever.
>
> What do you think will happen by reading that subject above?
> Possibly the same as if you read
>
>    THIS 10 WEIRD TRICKS WILL MAKE YOU RICH
>
> or something;-)
>
>> If you want smart people to help you for free, it's wise to
>> communicate respectfully. They have better things
>> to do than click on some meaningless link to find out what
>> some careless person wrote in there.
> Exactly. So
>
>    (a) help us help you
>    (b) help us make this place a nice place, with its roughly
>       3200 inhabitants:-)
>
>> No offence intended, I am just trying to help you fit in here
>> and thus get the kind of replies that you hope for.
> Thanks for bringing that up, cheers

Nothing like beating a dead horse for some, it seems.

I already, very clearly, noted in response to Anders: "sorry to all."

In any society, virtual or otherwise, that will do it, assuming of
course, you bothered to read:

*"**Thank you. I will do that next time. Sorry to everyone."*

Besides a very clear apology, I do not know what else was expected. Nor,
can I understand the 'rants,' given the apology.

However, some resources from David were very helpful, particularly, " 
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html"

And thanks, David, no offense taken.

Best wishes

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have you seen this inside.... Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-20 01:00 +0200
  Re: have you seen this inside.... Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 02:30 +0200
    Re: have you seen this inside.... Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-20 02:50 +0200
      Re: have you seen this inside.... David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 08:00 +0200
        How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you seen  this inside....] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-20 11:10 +0200
          Re: How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you  seen this inside....] Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-20 18:30 +0200
            Re: How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you  seen this inside....] The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-06-20 18:40 +0200
          Re: How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you seen  this inside....] Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-21 20:30 +0200
            Re: How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you  seen this inside....] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-21 20:40 +0200
              Re: How to pick a Subject line for a mailing list [was: have you seen  this inside....] Seeds Notoneofmy <notoneofmyseeds@gmx.de> - 2020-06-21 22:00 +0200

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