Digital BW, The Print

As moderator I would request that people limit the amount of an earlier post
that gets repeated as a thread progresses. Just leave enough so that people
will understand your reply. The less cluttered the archive is, the easier it
will be for people to search for information.

One thing that I used to see in lists were:

SNIP, (Snip), (Snip Earlier)

To indicate that portions of the preceding message that you were replying to
had been removed for the sake of brevity and letting people know that they
could look in the earlier message if they wanted the full text.

Whether the response comes before or after the message you are replying to
is a matter of personal choice. I vary it myself. If the original message or
topic is short, before works great. If you are replying to a long message in
sections then after seems to be easier to follow.

Martin

* -----Original Message-----
* From: Tom Baker [mailto:tbaker1328@...] 
* Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 6:59 PM
* To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
* Subject: Re: [Digital BW] To all: please limit your postings 
* to necessary lenght
* 
* 
* I'm with you.  I like the responses first.
*  
* Tom Baker
* 
* Bob Frost <bobfrost@...> wrote:
* Ernst,
* 
* Please don't! I don't read half your postings because I can't 
* be bothered to scroll down through reams of old postings to 
* get to your words of wisdom. If you want to be read, put your 
* thoughts FIRST, please. I've already read the other stuff; I 
* don't need to read it again.
* 
* Bob Frost.
* 
* ----- Original Message ----- 
* From: "Ernst Dinkla" <E.Dinkla@...>
* 
* > The best method to get replies shorter is by putting your answer 
* > underneath the original.
* 
*