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Subject:Re: Protocol recommendation for e-mail From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- JAEDWORKS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:39:56 -0800
At 8:48 AM -0800 1/7/99, David Hailey wrote:
>I would like to recommend that we as professional communicators begin a
>protocol for the subject line of e-mail. Whenever we send private messages,
>we should begin the subject line with the name of the addressee--(e.g.,
>Subject: Dave--I need a quick answer to a question)
How about not sending private messages to a mailing list to begin with?
Seems simpler, to say nothing of more courteous.
