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Please snip your quotes! Have a heart!

2003-02-27 by Mitch Alland

Most of the readers of this list get the daily digest rather than as 
individual e-mail messages, which means we have to scroll through miles 
and miles of messages with long and unnecessary quotes. This list seems 
to be particularly bad in this respect in that people, particularly the 
frequent posters, quote the entire posting to which they are 
responding; some people even quote the whole thread to which they are 
adding. This is unnecessary. All you have to do is to "snip" the point 
to which you are responding.

Have a heart: most of us who are trying to glean some interesting 
information to learn something or to solve a problem, are forced to 
scroll through miles of this ridiculous quoting. I don't know why this 
list is so bad in this respect because the EpsonWideFormat is much 
better in this respect.

Please be considerate and SNIP.


--Mitch/Bangkok

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