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To: Susan Saline who wrote (332)2/1/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) of 32882
 
Re: Titles and one-line posts

Susan, let's not overthink the problem. I doubt people will take the time to add titles to a post that is only a few words anyway. I just thought it might be a convenience to be able to skip over situations like the following:

#100 - Anyone know when earnings will be announced?
#101 - My broker told me this Tuesday.
#102 - I called Schwab and they said a week from Monday.
#103 - Who cares. Earnings will suck anyway.
#104 - Schwab never gets earnings days right.
etc.

If messages #100-#104 had some sort of end-of-message mark then one could avoid clicking on them.

Actually, as I have a cable modem, I click on everything since response time is instantaneous. However, I do read many threads and do skip over a good many posts, so knowing there might be more content inside might sway me to consider reading the rest of it.

Perhaps, as someone alluded to here, Brad had the right idea in the Clubhouse by adding a "More" tag at the end. So, in this case, no tag means a one-line message. I'm more inclined to see a "+" sign to indicate there's more to read. If you really want to get technical, then a much longer post might get a "++" sign, etc.

Did I just say we shouldn't overthink the problem? (gg)

- Jeff
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