OpenEuphoria

Re: informative "subject" titles (was: explain it to me)

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Aug 31, 2001
• 405 views

Brian,

That's an interesting, albeit circuitous, workaround, especially the
"auto-trash if not self-sent" feature!  I think I tried something similar,
by forwarding "non-topical subject-header emails" back to myself, with a
more useful subject line, but it became too much of a hassle, and it removed
the original *sender* from the "from", which can also sometimes be useful to
search on.

<hint mode on>
Wouldn't it be nice for just about everyone here if everyone wrote subjects
for their forum postings which explained the *content* of their posting?
<hint mode off>

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: <brian_keene at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: explain it to me


>
> Dan:
> I find that the inconsistant subject lines are more commn than on topic
> subject lines.  So what I've done is set up a 2nd E-mail account on
> yahoo that no 1 knows about except me.  When I want to save something I
> just fwd the message with an appropriate title to that E-mail acct. &
> then download that into a similar special folder (like the 1 you
> described).  Anything that wasn't sent by me is automatically trashed
> by Yahoo.
>
> Regards
> Brian Keene
>
> --- Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote:
> >
> > George,
> >
> > I almost never remember all the good stuff people put here, so I made
> > a
> > email folder "code examples" that I copy the best of the best to, for
> > future
> > reference.  Only problem is when people write email subjects like
> > "explain
> > it to me", instead of something which includes the *nature* of the
> > desired
> > help,  which throws off my ability to easily browse through that
> > folder by
> > subjects to retrieve something of interest ;)
> >
> > Dan Moyer
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: explain it to me
> >
> >
> > > now if I can just remember this stuff....
> > >
> > > ...george
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 4:07 PM
> > > Subject: Re: explain it to me
> > >
> > >
> > > > Clever stuff, Chris! Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > -ck
> > > >
> > > > > I do this..
> > > > >
> > > > > rec=value(rec)
> > > > > rec={rec[2]}
> > > > >
> > > > > this also works....
> > > > > rec=rec[2..2]
> > > > > then there is no need for an object variable..
> > > >