2 commands missing from basic list?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:11:34 -0500, "Patrick Waugh" <ptwaugh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, if I have a question, I ask it.

This sounds fine, AFAICT.

> I've even now answered a basic question or two here to help, so sorry
> you are having a bad day.  But, if I'm going to use this in
> production, I have to ensure I understand it, This was the first RCS
> I've ever used, so sorry it was all new to me.
>
> I'll just put "NOOB Question - subject here" in my subjects, so you
> and the more experienced developers who are annoyed with such
> questions can safely ignore them [...]

Please don't do that.  The subject line of email message is often the
first thing I see in my mail client.  If the subject is utterly useless
when I try to see if the message is interesting or not, I commonly hit
DEL and move on.

Pushing the useful bits even further to the right, by a large prefix
like "[Mercurial] :faq:wiki:newbie: NOOB Question - ..."  or some other
sort of `tagging' system sounds a waste of space, and it's IIRC the same
reason why mercurial email doesn't include the "[Mercurial]" list ID in
the subject.