23 Jul
2006
23 Jul
'06
18:21
On 7/23/06, Crispin Cowan <crispin@novell.com> wrote: <snip>
On the other hand, I also don't believe that putting the instructions in message footers (in the body) would actually increase effectiveness. People who just spam the list without reading the instructions are just as unlikely to read the message footers.
you could be right, though I do know that many people use applications that don't make finding the header easy or obvious. And these folks may not really know how to do it. So, sending an email is the choice they make. I'm sorry I've taken up this much bandwidth with this issue ... but I do think sometimes that "how we have always done it" does not speak to the current need. Peter