On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:36:33 -0500 Came this utterance fomulated by Riley to my mailbox:
> That's right Michael. The answer is 42. You answered well. > > Lovett answered well also: keeping his eyes open. > > You can avoid the walls better that way. > http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html may be useful to you if you are going to be replying to many posts. "Replying When replying to other people it is customary to intersperse your response with their questions, both so you can answer the actual question that was asked, and so everyone else has some idea what you are talking about. It is also customary to limit your quoting to the minimum possible to get your point across. Take the time to be considerate, remember those subscribers who have slow, expensive connections." Interspersing means replying straight after each point you are replying to. Also called interleaved or inline replying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Limiting your quoting means to trim the unnecesary outdated comments from the email, remembering that several thousand emails are being generated from one reply to the list will help to reduce stress on inboxes. The above does not normally get applied to the newbies asking questions unless they subscribe, and join in with the discussion. We also try to be tolerant with OT discussions and thread hijacking as well for the same reasons. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
