Answering my own comment... Digging back into the thread for completeness, Chris suggested you send your one-question per email assertion to ESR for inclusion. I concur, because while it's an obvious corollary to a hacker, it's likely to be non obvious to those who will gain the most benefit from the essay in the first place.
Rob === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:48 AM Subject: Re: few more questions > Just cleaning up my mailbox, found this unansewered... > > I took the single question pre mail as a corollary to > "Use meaningful, specific subject headers". If you have two questions(*) > then a meaningful specific subject header becomes much less likely. > > (*) Questions in the sense of a group of tightly bound statements and > requests, not in the sense of a single sentence with a '?' tacked on the > end. > > Rob > > === > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 3:44 PM > Subject: Re: few more questions > > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > IIRC it is in the ESR document. Hmm. > > > > > > Well, he says hackers don't like open-ended time sinks. He also says > > subject lines should be descriptive. But I *don't* see where he says > that > > a single message should not contain multiple questions. Wanna give me > the > > section reference where he says that? > > > > --Chuck > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
