Re: filmscanners: Re: OT messages & OTquestions.

["Chris Hargens" <ldmr@cruzio.com>]

Perhaps OT messages could be revised in the subject title -- instead of
reading "Re: filmscanner ....."
one could insert the words "Re: copyright questions" or something of that
sort. That way those who are interested as well as those who are not
interested can readily identify the topic. I understand that the format "Re:
was such and such no such and such" also signals a change and maintains the
thread, but (it seems to me) there comes a point when it should be made
clear that the thread has broken and another topic has taken primacy. For my
part, I agree with those who suggest that the delete button is usually the
best answer for messages that I'm not interested in. A concise subject
heading makes it all easier.

Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Snyder <jimsnyder@insight.rr.com>
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: OT messages & OTquestions.


>on 3/22/01 11:46 AM, Chris McBrien at chris@erg.abdn.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> Jim Snyder,
>> does that mean we should join a news group for flatbed
>> scanners, one for film scanners, one for monitors, one for photoshop
>> problems and so on. Your 140 mesages per day would soon become 500
>> odd.
>>
>> I don't think people were/are using the "Subject" line of the
>> e-mail system enough, they seem to be just pressing the "Reply" button
>> and typing something completely different. If the subject line didn't
>> contain my film scanner number 2700 or VueScan, then I'd ditch the
>> message.
>>
>> Regards Chris McBrien.
>>
>Understood.
>
>Jim Snyder
>
>