[Reader-list] first posting

[geert lovink]

Dear Sarai fellows,

maybe Monica Narula has already explained this to you, if not I'll do it
again.

It would be useful for the many subscribers (1000-2000?) if you could
stop naming your posting first post, second post etc. and give your
story a proper title in the subject line. This is a basic rule in list
cultures. In this way readers can quickly get an idea what the topic of
the posting is all about. It's also good to repeat the title and sub
title in the body of the email. Also it is most helpful for readers if
you create paragraphs and put in hard breaks (empty lines) every now
and then. Your stories are fascinating and deserve a wide readership.
There is one trick if you're not sure how your posting will look like:
send it first to yourself and then copy-paste it again into your mail
reader and put in some more white (or take out the double lines, in
case you've copy-pasted the text out of a Word document).

Yours,

Geert Lovink