Re: [Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

2014-12-30 Thread Chris Hallinan
As usual, everyone has an opinion! ;) I have been involved with Internet mail lists (many hams call 'em reflectors) since before there was a world wide web. Proper etiquette is to top post like I have done, so it's easy to read the current reply. Often, snipping a message content will lose

Re: [Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

2014-12-30 Thread Alan Hawrylyshen
On Dec 30, 2014, at 10:51, Chris Hallinan challi...@gmail.com wrote: As usual, everyone has an opinion! ;) […] Proper etiquette is to top post like I have done, so it's easy to read the current reply. […] As you rightly point out, everyone has an opinion. I think that the convention

Re: [Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

2014-12-30 Thread Rick Hewett
On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Chris Hallinan wrote: As usual, everyone has an opinion! ;) Of course, Proper etiquette is to top post In my day, top posting was considered most impolite, while snipping and interspersing replies (to give just enough context while keeping the messages as short as

Re: [Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

2014-12-30 Thread John Harper
This topic has already been addressed by Elecraft: http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm John AE5X http://www.ae5x.com/blog As you rightly point out, everyone has an opinion __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

Re: [Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

2014-12-30 Thread Phil Wheeler
Hi, David -- and welcome to the list. Generally I agree with your comment, though I'm sure I occasionally forget to edit as much as I should. OTOH -- deleting too much can make the reply pretty hard to understand, so both extremes should be avoided. The other thing is that these lists

[Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

2014-12-29 Thread David Bondy G4NRT
I know that I am new to this list but I’d like to make a plea from the heart (I will be posting the same plea on some other groups): Would list members please, please, please think about what they are doing when they quote an entire message (and sometimes many, many replies) when posting to