Hail thou noble and hearty correspondents: please payeth thou heed to those who
lurk and read thy voluminous missives on such small matters which need none of
the frivilous and wasteful discourse which appears here in my mail box daily.
Since this might appear a pointed comment to certain principal
correspondents, perhaps they should hear that have ears. Know that this plea is
directed towards thee such that thy electronic printing press might not be
hurled through yonder isenglass and into the blackest void at some point in
hostile retribution for thy numerous and lengthy netiquette iniquities. Those
who offend most grieviously are those who see our conversations on a message by
message basis and feel compelled to reply to them in wholesale fashion. Thou
knowest who thou art indeed!!
Perhaps we could instead of combining lists, we might consider banishment or
exile for all those who fail to grasp the notion of limited quoting as opposed
to copying entire threads (as is wont here amongst those living in the dark
ages of netiquette). Thou shouldst examine thy behaviours and know thou that
indeed that this correspondent wishes not to name names amongst our noble
personages here present in this virtual ongoing disputation, but lo, he shalt
consider such as a an appropriate measure should such august personas fail to
mend their wasteful and slovenly ways.
Take ye heed of the words communicated to me from the electronic void from
them who thou knoweth in a prior life as Dear Abby, Mistress Manners and their
sisters, who were proceeded in life and service by their esteemed forebearer
Lady Amy Vanderbilt. I come here forward verily to testify to their knowledge
and gentle abilities which cut through the veil of obfuscation and glommed
there onto the heart and crux of a discussion, rather than dancing a minuet
about the edges of a perditious and most perilous character flaw
They who do offend so often (that they could not possibly know that they
indeed do so offend on such a regular and indifferent basis regardless of the
topic or it's importance) might be endowed with their own list where they might
be made free to copy entire electronic parchments such as those who do inhabit
a scriptorium without a second thought and fill people's mailboxes with large
electronic circulars which have small truth to be told....Perhaps they needs to
be placed into digest receipt of the list so that they might see the greivious
extent of their waste of electronic parchment. In this way, they might be
compelled to read only on a daily basis the news called out by the electronic
circuit rider and not needlessly copying all those missives, but rather
extracting that which is the essence of the kernal of their response.
They who waste so many black and white electrons fail to realize that those
who receive the digest form of our chronicle know all that has come before this
digest, thus they do not lack for continuity. And those who read the
disputations on a missive by missive basis are equally well informed such that
they need not see the entire disputation or discussion with each reply or show
of agreement. In deed, one would not send the entire contents of a message
which one had received from a correspondent back to that correspondent when one
replied to their missive. One would quote or reference that to which one wished
to make comment.
Come then ye lords and ladies, when thou strikes yon reply button, trim-est
thou that text which doth not apply to that which thou wisheth to address. Copy
ye not an entire parchment with each comment which thou makes. Should one feel
thus so compelled one might wish to do so to one-self by engaging one's
word-processing scribe and dictating the chronicle to one-self.
Thus ye shalt become a noble known both for brevity and clarity, rather than
one who is wont to create a chronicle with each and every missive.
This thou might accomplish by depressing thy left mouse key and marking thou
that text which thou needeth not - such that it is stained black. Then thou
shalt strike thy delete key to eliminate the blackened and stained verbosity
which thou needs cast out into the electronic void. Then thou shalt be known
amongst net nobility as a righteous and virtuous student of net chivilry...
In jest, but pointedly so - thou dost knoweth who thou art o offenders major
and minor... please thou to consider the mending of thy ways!
Mark The Goatspotter
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