Hi all,
This evening I just rejected 10 posts because they were way over the
message length. As many of you may be aware we've set up the list to
reject messages over a 10 KB size limit in order to cut down on
bandwidth for those users over seas who have to pay for the amount of
e-mail bandwidth they use as well as to cut down on the number of
multiple posts that contain hundreds of replies in a single message
taking longer for those on older dial-up connections to download etc. So
when replying to a post please remember to trim your messages before
sending. This can be accomplished in one of two ways.
First, You can write your message inline responding to the major points
of a message and deleting everything else but the prior posters message
and your inline comments. Below is an example message.
Hi Joe,
On 5/13/2012 Joe Wrote:
>I think Shades of Doom is the best game in the world. What do you guys
think?
Joe, I agree with you. Shades of Doom is my favorite game in the world.
I spend at least two or three hours a day playing it.
Happy Gaming
John
As you can see here the John person writes his response inline, in Jo's
prior post, and deletes everything but the points he wants to respond
to. This is generally how its done on most mailing lists, but not the
only way to cut down on message length.
The second way is to write your reply at the top of the message you are
responding to, but delete everything after the prior person's post. That
way there is only the person's original post and your reply. The message
before the one Joe wrote should be removed from the message like this.
Hi Joe,
I agree with you. Shades of Doom is my favorite game in the world. I
spend at least two or three hours a day playing it.
Happy Gaming
John
On 5/13/2012 Joe Wrote:
>I think Shades of Doom is the best game in the world. What do you guys
think?
As you can see here we have the same amount of text, IE the messages are
the same size, but John trims the message off so only Jo's question is
left. If Joe had been responding to someone else or had simply asked
that question in an existing thread John removed all the extraneous
replies from the message so that the reader gets the reply and specific
question or questions Joe is asking.
Now, that I've explained this I hope everyone would please remember to
trim. Sometimes it only takes a few extra seconds of your time to do
this, and its better for everyone all around. Its certainly better to
spend that few seconds trimming only to discover you get a message back
from Mailman announcing your post or posts were sent to the trash
because you went over the message limit.
Cheers!
Sincerely,
Thomas Ward
Co-Moderator of the Audyssey Mailing List
[email protected]
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