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According to strom@Watson.Ibm.Com (Rob Strom):
>The published guidelines on Subject lines imply that people reading
>news have a limited amount of time, and are justified in skipping
>over articles whose subject lines don't indicate relevance.

Your use of the word "guidelines" is misleading.  In this discussion,
"guidelines" refers specifically to the guidelines for newsgroup
creation and renaming, also known as "How To Create a New Newsgroup."

In future, please refer to articles by their names.

The below quote is not from _the_ guidelines.

>These guidelines say:
>
>  The subject line of an article is there to enable a person with a limited
>  amount of time to decide whether or not to read your article.

Yes, that's why the Subject line exists.  But it can't always achieve
its worthy purpose, because there's no one criterion for a person's
wanting to read a given article.  In other words, what's important to
me about an article won't necessarily be important to you.

In brief: Specific requirements for subject lines may help the
situation, but they won't cure it.

>Multiple changes should only be placed on a single ballot if no more
>than a single existing group or hierarchy of groups is directly
>affected by the change.

Okay by me.

>The RFDs and CFVs for name changes and reorganizations should
>be clearly labelled in the Subject line with the acronym RFD
>or CFD and the name of the newsgroup or newsgroup hierarchy
>which would be directly affected by the proposed change.
>
>For example:  Subject: RFD: rec.ham-radio.* reorganization

Sure.  That's how I labelled the first comp.unix.* reorganization,
except I spelled out "CALL FOR DISCUSSION" and "CALL FOR VOTES".  And
yet there were _still_ people claiming not to have known about the
vote, and whining about its results.

Conclusion, once again: Specific requirements for subject lines may
help the situation, but they won't cure it.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagles to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"