Re: Why the [SQU]?

From: Rainer Perske <perske@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:23:57 +0200 (MES)

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Hello.

Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> wrote:
> Why is [SQU] suddenly being prepended to the subject lines of
> messages? I'm on many, many lists and every time the subject is
> brought up about wether or not to do something like that, the answer
> always turns out to be "NO", usually with some pretty good reasons.

My opinion:

[SQU] does not break any existent mail program.
But it helps the human reader.

Thus please keep inserting it!

> Let's not hold the hands of people who are too
> incompetent/lazy/whatever to handle large amounts of mail without the
> help of the list servers and disadvantage the majority of the people
> on this list who actually know how to deal with it.

I cannot see any disadvantage.

cu
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