ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: Tony's getting close to the point here: when you post to a mailing list or a newsgroup, you're writing for an audience. If you want your message to be read, you should make it easy for that audience to read the message. Else you run the risk that your audience will not bother, there being 72 other unread messages in the classiccmp in-box this morning. If what you're going on about isn't obvious to me somewhere in the first screenful or two, I'm going to hit the 'n' key and move along. Putting something relevant in the Subject: header can help me make a more informed decision. So can trimming quoted text to just the relevant portions: if I see a couple or three screenfuls of quoting, or can't tell whether I'm seeing quoted or original text, I begin to wonder whether it's worth looking further for something new. Same if I can't find the text for all the markup tags. -Frank McConnell