Digital BW, The Print

Hi all,

Sorry to bring this up but perhaps nobody has yet mentioned it on this 
rather new elist. Some folks are quoting entire threads in their replies. 
I don't know about others but I receive the list in digest form and it is 
a major pain to read perhaps a one line reply followed by an enormous 
quote - usually the whole thread - basically half the digest is quoted 
material we have all read before. One person recently quoted back the 
entire previous digest!

Please, people just post the one or several lines particularly pertinent 
to your reply. If you don't know how to do this I'm sure we can all help 
you out on both Mac and Windows platforms.

Cheers,

Nina

Nina,

Thanks for the reminder. This seems to be one of those thinks that 
simply needs to be endlessly repeated at regular intervals as even 
the most experienced of us forget upon occasion.

Those who receive digests by e-mail need to be particularly careful 
or the next digest you receive yourself will be a very, very long one.

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., ncm <ncm@m...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry to bring this up but perhaps nobody has yet mentioned it on 
this 
> rather new elist. Some folks are quoting entire threads in their 
replies. 
> I don't know about others but I receive the list in digest form and 
it is 
> a major pain to read perhaps a one line reply followed by an 
enormous 
> quote - usually the whole thread - basically half the digest is 
quoted 
> material we have all read before. One person recently quoted back 
the 
> entire previous digest!
> 
> Please, people just post the one or several lines particularly 
pertinent 
> to your reply. If you don't know how to do this I'm sure we can all 
help 

> you out on both Mac and Windows platforms.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nina

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., mwesley250@e... 
wrote:
> Nina,
> Thanks for the reminder. This seems to be one of those thinks 
that 
> simply needs to be endlessly repeated at regular intervals as 
even 
> the most experienced of us forget upon occasion.


One other matter too: I switched my settings for this list this 
weekend, from web-only to email. Today, I noticed a very 
noticeable difference in these approaches: when you choose to 
Reply to a post, the web-based version offers the option to reply 
to only ONE person -- the person who posted prior to you. But, if 
you get this list via email, you only have one choice: to reply to the 
whole list. I've noticed many posts over the last few months that 
seemed more appropriate to go to one individual, but now, I am 
assuming that these people are getting the email version, and 
were probably unaware and unable to do so. Due to this one 
major difference, I switched back today to the web version; I think 
it's much better. Just a thought. --Mark Tucker

Mark,

Well it might be better for USA folks but if you have a standard modem 
connection in Europe (and a lot of other places) you pay your online 
phone time by the minute - no free local calls - which makes reading 
lists in webview rather expensive. That's why I always opted for the 
digest form. I now have ADSL so that's no longer an issue but I like to 
read at my convenience and perhaps go back and save some tip or other. 
Easier to do if you have it already on your hd.

Responding to one person isn't that difficult though not a one click 
deal. You just make a new message and copy/paste in the address of the 
receipient instead of just clicking Reply button. Even using Reply to 
post to the group you still gotta copy/paste the thread subject.

Cheers,

Nina

>when you choose to 
>Reply to a post, the web-based version offers the option to reply 
>to only ONE person -- the person who posted prior to you. But, if 
>you get this list via email, you only have one choice: to reply to the 
>whole list. I've noticed many posts over the last few months that 
>seemed more appropriate to go to one individual, but now, I am 
>assuming that these people are getting the email version, and 
>were probably unaware and unable to do so. Due to this one 
>major difference, I switched back today to the web version; I think 
>it's much better.