Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 12, Issue 1138

On 28 May 2013 08:23, Buck Calabro wrote:

<<SNIP>> A meaningful subject line (see above!) will garner better
answers than a vague one.

Sure would be a nicer effect if both empty subjects and /Digest/ subjects would be rejected entirely from the lists; i.e. such messages should not reach any of: anyone on the mailing lists, the archives, or the NewsServer. While not requiring the poster to send a message with a /proper/ subject, it would force the participant to make an effort to make a /correction/ to the "Subject:" of their new-message or reply-message before their message will be shared with anyone. It seems that the News Server already has been updated to reject empty subjects; albeit still accepting empty "Re:" messages.

Even if the Digests would have an End-Of-Message (EOM) inserted at the top of the message to improve the chances that the entire digest would not get copied into the archives, I infer from the effects seen whereby so many message replies have simply quoted the EOM followed by the mailing-list descriptive text [i.e. "This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list..."], that the effect of an EOM would be just as unhelpful as the EOM that precedes that text describing the list being used.