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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: URGENT - Someone out there can help me !!
Date: 5 Mar 2001 07:40:24 -0500
Date: 2001-03-05T07:40:24-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <RcBrLW+jv83b@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ELwo6.9129$mt.1359136@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com

In article <ELwo6.9129$mt.1359136@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, "Rohit Sharma" <r.sharma.1998@cranfield.ac.uk> writes:
>> You are much more likely to receive a response if you use a relevant
>> title.  If you look at the title you used from the viewpoint of others,
>> you will see there is absolutely _no_ indication of what problem you
>> are trying to solve, and thus no reason for anyone to open and read
>> it.
>>
>> Your title seems aimed mainly at attracting sympathetic folk, but
>> that is _much_ less effective than attracting those who might know
>> the answer.
> 
> You will see that there are at least 4 mails from me with *relevant* titles
> unaswered. I only wish you had answered the question insted of this no use
> moral lecture !!

Mails ?  This is a newsgroup.

I do not understand why you would want an answer from me, since I know
nothing about the topic.  That is the point of relevant titles - to
attract only those who know the subject.

There are sometimes questions for which nobody knows the answer (although
other responses indicate this is not such a case).



  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-05 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-04 14:28 URGENT - Someone out there can help me !! Rohit Sharma
2001-03-04 17:33 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-03-04 19:38   ` Rohit Sharma
2001-03-05 12:40     ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-03-04 20:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-03-04 20:55 ` tmoran
2001-03-05  9:58 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-03-07 21:52 ` Mark Lundquist
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