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From: Joe Clark
Date: Wed, Mar 13 2002 8:02PM
Subject: List etiquette
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Imagine a world in which subscribers to this list-- all of them
experienced in computer usage-- finally learn to STOP FORWARDING
ENTIRE PREVIOUS MESSAGES with their replies.
Your options are:
1. Select All. Delete. Type.
2. Edit your postings to refer *only* to *relevant* previous text,
properly quoted with > or vertical-bar characters (if you're using
Eudora, Hotmail, or another mailer that understands format=flowed).
3. Start a new message from scratch.
4. Stop using Outlook.
Oh, and no HTML messages, please.
There's no excuse for the massive laziness of forwarding even *one*
previous message in toto, let alone *four* plies of previous text.
Grow up.
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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Wed, Mar 13 2002 11:58PM
Subject: Re: List etiquette
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At 10:02 PM -0500 3/13/02, Joe Clark wrote:
>Imagine a world in which subscribers to this list-- all of them
>experienced in computer usage-- finally learn to STOP FORWARDING
>ENTIRE PREVIOUS MESSAGES with their replies.
>[...]
>There's no excuse for the massive laziness of forwarding even *one*
>previous message in toto, let alone *four* plies of previous text.
>Grow up.
...and this is Joe being _nice_. Just imagine if he were pissed at
you.
Don't piss Joe off -- edit posts better, everyone! It makes the list
easier to use, for all readers.
--Kynn
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From: Nick Wilson
Date: Sat, Mar 16 2002 9:37AM
Subject: Re: List etiquette
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* and then Kynn Bartlett declared....
> ...and this is Joe being _nice_. Just imagine if he were pissed at
> you.
>
> Don't piss Joe off -- edit posts better, everyone! It makes the list
> easier to use, for all readers.
hehe, I'm a little surprised a rant like that would be necessary on an
accessibility list but if people insist on using Outhouse! what can you
expect? You should see the state of some of the other lists I'm on...
sheesh!
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