Please, please, please can I ask everyone to practice a bit more email etiquette!
This message was over 3,000 lines and 136K long!! And the entire new content needed less than 25 lines and ~960 to write! That's about 0.7% new interesting content, and 99.3% repeated, quoted content and HTML crap. !! First, please don't keep "replying with attachments", attaching all the previous messages. One thing that can help you remember this is avoiding "top posting" (where you reply with the entire message, then just add your comments at the top). If you want to reply to a specific point, include just those few lines from the original message needed to make your reply clear, and put your reply to those points _below_ the quoted lines (this helps you notice how much you are quoting). Second, and even more importantly, please turn off HTML-ized, or so-called "Rich Text", formats in your mail clients. These work by sending a plaintext copy of your message, then _also_ sending a version which has HTML commands added. Because the poor job clients usually make of adding HTML, this usually more than _triples_ the size of your message over plain text version, to say exactly the same thing. Email is a textual medium; there's no need for all the HTML bells and whistles. Not only are they not needed, they're often very detrimental. I use a dark background and light foreground in my mail reader, for example, and I can't tell you how many times I've not been able to read a "Rich Text" message because the sender decided to get fancy and set their foreground color themselves, rather than letting me choose what color I want to use. They often choose a dark blue or dark green, or even black, and so to me their message is unreadable or even looks totally empty! Remember you're writing for the benefit of your readers, not for your own edification. Think of them and let them view your message as best works for _them_, not you. If you don't know how to disable HTML/"Rich Text" format in your mail client, this page should tell you how to do it for just about any mail client: http://expita.com/nomime.html Save our inboxes, save our mail servers, save _Rational's_ mail server... heck, save web bandwidth for those really important things, like downloading the latest ClearCase patches --- :) Thanks... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum *************************************************************************
