Debugging Subject: give pertinent facts

[Wendell Cochran <atrypa@eskimo.com>]

Karsten Self recommends "How to Report Bugs Effectively" by Simon
Tatham at

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

Tatham's not only right, he's a really good writer.

Just to rub it in with soap & sandpaper, I add here that the Subject
line for bug reports (isn't that what they are?) to this list should
also be informative.

On seeing
Subject: Please help!!!
I jump to the next post, feeling sure that Please Help's text will
also be vague, incomplete, & undeserving.  Likely I'm not alone in
that.

Actually most posts to this list do carry good Subject lines. But
most isn't all.