--- Eduard Grinvald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Umm, let's get back to perl, please... Etiquette is nice, but is
> hardly the point of this list.
Off topic posts can be very useful, especially for beginners.
Just put [OT] in the subject to alert people who would rather not spend
the off-topic time.
I get a couple hundred emails some days, but I personally tend to peek
at the OT's first, since I can help them more often, lol....
> A gentle nudge to please:
>
> 1) trim off all of the message that is not germane to your response.
> In
> your case, everything below your signature.
>
> 2) While I realise that MS Outlook or whatever Office comes with
> these
> days doesn't encourage appropriate use of email formatting, please do
> your
> best to _not_ put your response at the top of the message leaving a
> trail
> of 15 email underneath it.
>
> It helps to make the email easier to read, easier to know who is
> saying
> what and trims off the unwanted text to save someone searching the
> archive
> a bit of time and trouble when looking for an answer to something
> that has
> already been asked.
>
> This is often called 'jeopardy quoting' in the newsgroups and the
> same
> applies to mailing lists.
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~wijnands/nnq/nquote.html is a nice little
> explanation of it.
>
> e.
>
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