In a recent posting, Colin Macgregor Stevens <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Please remember that your readers are from all over the world. You can save >everyone some time by including the "what and where" in the title e.g. "Job >posting - Curator - TX, USA". People can then tell from the title if they >want to open the message or not. I second that. Not only will you save us time but you will reach more of the people you want to inform or from whom you want help. Remember that some of us are using newsgroup software which allows us to download just the header information initially. We then use the subject heading to determine whether or not we download the full message next time we log on. Life is too short to read messages of no interest to us, nor can we afford unneccesary connection costs (in many parts of the world we pay for all our calls). I only read postings which I am fairly sure will be of use to me or where I think I might be able to help the enquirer. So messages with vague subject headers like "Help wanted" or "Information required" just don't get read, whereas I always read postings with informative subject lines which appear to relate to my own area of expertise, such as "Classification systems - Help wanted" or "Information required on UK cataloguing software". A related problem sometimes arises when people hit the reply button when they want to raise a new topic. This is fine provided you change the subject line to reflect your new message. Otherwise your posting appears to be following on from whatever message you had on your screen when you hit reply. This can be very irritating to those of us who download messages selectively and/or have software which "threads" newsgroup articles. Perhaps we need a regularly posted FAQ document to help new subscribers get the best out of museum-l? Stuart ------ Stuart Holm, Heritage Documentation Projects Fax: +44 870 055 3623 2 New Road, Reepham, Norwich NR10 4LP, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] ------------- World Wide Web - http://www.holm.demon.co.uk -------------