On May 12, 2008, at 09:44 , Henri Sivonen wrote: > (Aside: Email messages as a whole also have supplementary user- > entered data that is supposed to be mandatory: Subject. And as we > all know, software cannot force people to write a subject. However, > other people can make subject writing more compelling if you know > that by not writing a subject you are more likely to get your > message ignored as spam.) Karl pointed out to me off-list that Subject isn't a required field. This makes Subject an even better example of the issue that I thought it was: It's not a spec or software that makes people write sensible subject lines. It's how other people react if you don't. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Monday, 12 May 2008 07:50:26 UTC
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