RE: filmscanners: Re: OT messages & OTquestions.

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

What I am saying is not to be construed as disagreeing with or objecting to
anything you have said.  It is merely meant as a clarification of one small
point respecting your comment: "Perhaps OT messages could be revised in the
subject title -- instead of reading "Re: filmscanner ....."."  I believe
that the "Re: filmscanner" portion of the header is not an option of the
sender of the message but is automatically added to the subject header by
the server.  This does not preclude changing the remainder of the content of
the subject header after "Re: filmscanner."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Hargens
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:37 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: OT messages & OTquestions.


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
>
>