A request: shorter subject lines

[Richard Ristow]

There've been many recent posts to SPSSX-L with very long subject
lines. For example (and I'm choosing these as illustrations, not to
point them out) we've recently had,

"how to collapse any Exp frequency below 5 using spss syntax?"

"The reason to perform linear transformation of independent variables"

"How does the modeling nodes handle missing values if you don't
do              anything to missing values when preparing the data?"

I don't know how other list members experience these. I'm using an
excellent but older mail client that displays only about 64
characters of the subject, and won't generate replies properly for
long labels. But I'd think some of these are hard to read no matter the tool.

Let subject lines give the subject or question briefly; and in
particular, not be expanded by text like "How do I", or in general
not expanded as sentences. For example, the subjects above could be written,

"Collapse any Exp frequency below 5"

"Why linear transformation of independent variables?"

"Missing values in modeling nodes"

-With thanks,
  Richard

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[David Marso]

"I'm using an excellent but older mail client that displays only about 64
characters of the subject, and won't generate replies properly for
long labels."

Richard,
I sympathize in a way, but good luck with anyone complying ;-(
One solution might be to do all your SPSS stuff through Nabble.
I haven't signed into UGA listserve for probably 2 years now.
SPSS-XL Digest hits my gmail but I haven't bothered to read it in a  very long time .
HTH, David
Edited to post SPSS root URL: http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/
Nabble also allows Attachments and insertion of pics.

Richard Ristow wrote

There've been many recent posts to SPSSX-L with very long subject
lines. For example (and I'm choosing these as illustrations, not to
point them out) we've recently had,

"how to collapse any Exp frequency below 5 using spss syntax?"

"The reason to perform linear transformation of independent variables"

"How does the modeling nodes handle missing values if you don't
do              anything to missing values when preparing the data?"

I don't know how other list members experience these. I'm using an
excellent but older mail client that displays only about 64
characters of the subject, and won't generate replies properly for
long labels. But I'd think some of these are hard to read no matter the tool.

Let subject lines give the subject or question briefly; and in
particular, not be expanded by text like "How do I", or in general
not expanded as sentences. For example, the subjects above could be written,

"Collapse any Exp frequency below 5"

"Why linear transformation of independent variables?"

"Missing values in modeling nodes"

-With thanks,
  Richard

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