From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0123581076a0cf3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-14 17:12:03 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!deathstar.cris.com!news1.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!ncohen From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks Date: 12 Sep 1994 14:03:09 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Distribution: world Message-ID: <351n2t$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> References: <1994Sep1.084046.21595@sei.cmu.edu> <344u9q$di5@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <347idh$15ss@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <34tu91$139u@source.asset.com> <34usma$hti@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <34v0od$i0n@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Reply-To: ncohen@watson.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rios8.watson.ibm.com Date: 1994-09-12T14:03:09+00:00 List-Id: In article <34v0od$i0n@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: |> It's an old trick in the newsgroup world to editorialize like this in |> subject lines, but it's really rather poor netiquette. It's better to |> post a neutral subject line (e.g. in this case leave of the stinks), and |> keep the flaming to the body of the text. That way we don't get misleading |> subject lines as the thread extends. It seems that my news reader, xrn, did the work for me! In its list of unread articles, it truncates the subject line to 42 characters, so until I saw Robert's post, I truly believed that all these postings had the subject line Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming (The body of the message contains the full subject line, of course, but I tend to ignore the header lines in a message body.) -- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com