[melbourne-pug] Software Freedom Day: Saturday September 15

[Ben Finney]

Tennessee Leeuwenburg <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> writes:

> I've been bitten by writing content into the subject line before. I
> still can't understand why people won't grok it along with the rest of
> the email,

If you can understand why a reader of a newspaper article doesn't just
assume the headline is the first line of the content, or why the preview
of a movie isn't treated as the first forty seconds of the movie, you'll
understand why we treat the body as distinct from the Subject.

The Subject field should be a snappy summary of the message – ideally, a
snappy summary of the intended thread of discussion to follow. The body
itself should be distinct from that, and make sense without the summary.

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Ben Finney