I don't know about everyone else here, but I use Outlook to read newsgroups,
and it is set to hide read messages. Therefore, when I see a post which,
like this one, lacks the word "Re:" in the title, and doesn't refer to the
original post title, and doesn't quote any of the messages that it is
replying to in the thread, I have no idea what it is referring to. Now, I
can, in a pinch, change my Outlook settings so that I can view the whole
thread, in order to figure out what this message refers to, but that takes
some time to do, and if I did that with every message like this I'd be here
all day. So I generally don't. I would suspect that this is fairly common.
Therefore, it would seem logical that, in order to get the most and best
answers, it would be beneficial to use "Re: <original subject>" as the title
for a response, and to quote at least the last message responded to in the
current message. But maybe that's just me.
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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
http://www.takempis.com
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