Re: How to handle personal email ?
Danny R. Faught (faught@rsn.hp.com)
Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:50:59 -0600 (CST)
Steve Dunn wrote:
> Danny R. Faught:
> $I do my part, right in the header:
> $
> $Summary: read me before posting to comp.software.testing
> $
> $If only they'd read *that* far.
>
> Keep in mind that many newsreaders (of all stripes - from rn to
> the latest multimegabyte Windows NNTP clients and everything
> in between) either hide most header lines by default, or give the
> user the option of doing so. Anything you put in the headers,
> other than the Subject: line, is likely to be hidden from a good
> chunk of your audience.
True, it's far from perfect. I notice that this header isn't shown on
the banner page for the newsgroup at faqs.org, though it does show up
when viewing the FAQ itself as a single part, and as a separate
section (unlikely to be read) when read as a multi-part document.
Bottom line is, if someone genuinely wants to be an idiot, you can't
stop them.
-Danny