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* and then Erik Price blurted.... > On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 04:24 PM, Nick Wilson wrote: > ><tip> > > Try to keep your posts a little shorter > > if only for the sake of the dial-up users ;) > ></tip> > > Do you suggest this tip whenever someone includes the contents of the > last ten messages of a thread as quoted material below their three lines > of response? Occasionally. The point of threading is /follow/ a conversation not build upon it each time by repeating. Generally accepted net etiquette is to quote only what is necessary for someone picking up a thread in the middle to get the general idea. (and of course to quote the points you are responding to :) > In fact, a couple of times over the course of this week I've opened an > email from Nick Wilson saying "Please post more information about your > problem if you want us to help you." Which I think is appropriate, and Sure, it's always a Q. of balance. > I'm not criticizing you for this. But it takes a few extra seconds out Are you certain? > of everyone's day to read messages like this, even those of us with high > speed access. Don't you agree that if everyone took a few more words to > say what they mean, we'd actually save a bit of bandwidth in the long > run? I just thought your post was a little over detailed for what you were actually asking. I didn't mean to cause offense hence the friendly way of expressing my point as opposed to the 'well I'm not actually swearing so it's OK to flame people right?' approach. - -- Nick Wilson Tel: +45 3325 0688 Fax: +45 3325 0677 Web: www.explodingnet.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE8UdqNHpvrrTa6L5oRAk+uAJ0SNZlwSwNSZhH1ZS9QY7/SSZeaYQCglGUU 37Ft88fX/JWfm/hs2oaRGP0= =lkSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
