On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, debra west <[email protected]> wrote: > can't we just get the messages instead of metres and metres of byte- and > space-wasting stuff? it's hard to even find a fresh msg through all the > repetitive gumpf. below is a good example.
People are ignorant and lazy Debs. I have tried in the past to educate but got abused for doing so. Add to the mix that a lot of email clients make it more of a mission to format an email nicely including gmail which hides the quote part of the message with ... and lets you start replying at the top including the whole message which is probably 95% or more irrelavent.\\The best thing to do is reply correctly by bottom posting or inline posting and chop out bits that are irrelevant to your reply. Hopefully people will catch on Till then some reading http://lifehacker.com/5473859/basic-etiquette-for-email-lists-and-forums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Now if everyone bothered to read those two articles and adhered to some of the best practices you would not get reams of garbage But particularly to people receiving the digest - please do not reply and quote the whole digest - trim out the other messages at least. Thanks Trev -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room ---------------------------------------------- 021-447-1066 072-063-1653 For all emergencies please dial 10111 ---------------------------------------------- ONW: 082 081 0142, ONW email: [email protected] WEB: www.obswatch.org.za ---------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
