>> Regarding the page itself: it's good content, but could it be
>> more clearly formatted, e.g. making the paragraphs a bulleted
>> list or something?
> 
> I tried a bulleted list and it was pretty ugly. I only have rudimentary html
> knowledge and have no idea whether it can be fixed in a Google page. Maybe I 
> should
> enable members to edit the page for 24 hours in the hope that someone here 
> would
> tweak it?

I'm happy to have a go if you like. As long as it's in the next 24 hours or so, 
as 
I'll be away for a while after that. :-)

>> One suggestion for content improvement: subjects should be
>> short, but specific. In fact, I would personally say both the
>> examples of subjects are pretty poor. They are very broad.
>> "Searching in files" begs the question "for what?" IMHO,
>> something longer but more specific is heaps
>> better: E.g. Find everywhere a word occurs in many files.
> 
> OK. However, we're conversing in a thread called "Hello, how to do?"
> and I was just hoping to improve on that.

Yeah, fair call.

> It might need a fair bit of writing skill to do better than my
> proposed examples, and I was wanting to suggest a minimum standard,
> while pointing out that terms like "question on" and "how do I" are
> probably not needed in a Subject. Would more precision really be
> worthwhile in a mailing list?

I think it helps, particularly when searching the archives.

Ben.

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