Posted by ~~~AllisonWonderland~~~ on 01/06/21 11:38

Richard Crowley:
> Allison, you really need to lighten up on the ALL CAPS!
> Lots of people find it annoying and will refuse to read your
> postings.

James C. Allison:
Alright. Is this "Subject" line better?

RC:
> And you would likely find it very helpful to select more
> appropriate subject lines, regardless of capitalization.
> "Need some expert assistance" conveys no information at
> all. Everyone who posted a message there "needs some
> expert assistance" or they would not have posted their
> message. I would have used something like "Matrox
> RT2500 driver installation" or somesuch.

JCA:
Good point. So from now on... :)

RC:
> You need to attract the attention of people with RT2500
> experience and they are rare enough that you need to
> explicitly mention RT2500 in the subject line.

JCA:
Alright. And I'm finding out just how rare they are. And at one time,
RT2500s were the cat's meow... But this goes to show that ONLY hindsight is
20/20.

RC:
> Also I would suspect that there would be a much better
> chance of finding help on a more focused newsgroup like:
> news:alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox

JCA:
Alright, I'm on my way there right now. Thanks for the heads up.

I'll be in touch.

Hope you are well.

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