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From: rl3s@netcom.com (Zeus Paleologos)
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Subject: Talk: Should IDs be put at the end?
Date: 12 Sep 1994 05:16:32 -0500
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Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote:

:    I would rather see a post with an ID than without.  It helps to know
: if it's a request, pic, talk, etc.  But they are in your face at the
: beginning of the line.

:    How about if we put them at the end (except on long subject linss)?

Well, Bob, how long is long?  For the title of this original message,
my newsreader clipped the '(question)' to '(questi'.  I personally think
that having the IDs, period, is good idea, but I think having them at the
beginning is more natural than the end.  Since most of us (or perhaps I
should say all of us who read Western languages), psychologically, as well
as, logically, expect to find classifiers or anything else on which we
base a decision to be located at the beginning, that is, on the left.

I might also add that I think having them in all caps is preferable to
mixed case for the reason I find them easier to scan that way, that is,
they seem to stand out more from the rest of the text.

Just my thoughts.

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