X-Message-Number: 11341 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 11:59:38 -0500 From: "Raphael T. Haftka" <> Subject: Efficient headers Efficient headers, Charles Platt has just notified everybody that he is unsubscribing from cryonet because of the proliferation of items that he does not feel are related to cryonics. I think that his anger or disgust is partly due to a real problem of people not using efficient headers. An email message should have a header that allows recipients to tell immediately whether they want to read it or not. I suggest that we all take care to use headers that allow others to skip messages with a minimum of time. Conversely, it will allow us to scroll fast to messages that are of interest to us. I find that occasionally I will give up on scrolling down and checking all the messages that might be of interest to me because of the time involved. So using good headers will also enhance the chance that people will read your post when it is at the bottom of the pile. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Raphael (Rafi) Haftka University of Florida phone:352-392-9595 Department of Aerospace Engineering, fax: -7303 Mechanics and Engineering Science http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~haftka Gainesville, FL 32611 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Check the web page of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization at http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~issmo for details of the next MicroAV competition as well as the next ISSMO Congress in Buffalo, May 17-21 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11341