Users of this reflector need to review the proper etiquette for responding to other people's messages.
I subscribe to the digest versions of all the mail groups I participate in; otherwise I would literally have to sort through hundreds of e-mail messages every day. One thing that annoys me TO NO END is scrolling through the messages and seeing the same original message repeated again and again, sometimes dozens of times. The same would still be true if I received each posting as a separate e-mail message, maybe even more so. Not only is it annoying to have to download the same text over and over again, it loads down the server with unnecessary bandwidth. It is a very simple matter, when responding to a message, to go through and delete everything in the original message except those lines that are pertinent to the comments you make in your reply. Sometimes, messages are laden not only with the complete verbatim text of the most recent reference including all the headers and signatures, but often the full text/headers of the preceding Re:'s and Re:Re's. It becomes difficult to sort out exactly what the new message has to say because the text of the current posting is well hidden between the lines of all the unnecessary repetitive garbage. Please, when replying to someone else's posting, have a little consideration for those who will have to sort through all the repetitive text to find out what you just typed. If your posting includes the text of the original message at all, go through, highlight and delete everything that does not directly relate to your reply. Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
