Greetings, All.
I have received some inquiries as to why the new list server will
sometimes send out two digests in one day.
The digest normally is generated at 23:55 PST (USA). However, sometimes
the volume of the postings is such that the digest can get huge. When
that happens, not only does it take a long time to send them all, but
some people do not get them; their mail service limits the size of
incoming messages. So I have a threshold of 300KB set. During the day,
if that is reached, it will kick off a digest at that point in addition
to the one that goes out at night.
Notice that I said volume of the posts, not number of posts. What
causes this volume in most cases? OVER-QUOTING. When you hit Reply, add
a couple of lines at the top of the message, and do not bother to delete
all but the most relevant lines of the most recent message, you
contribute to the problem. There is no reason to be constantly quoting
the entire thread. Even worse is the quoting and re-quoting of all of
the footer garbage that HR departments tack on to email these days. (Or
that list servers like this one add for identification, to be fair.)
The general (very general) guideline of netiquette is that you should
quote only about four lines of the most recent post for each point to
which you are responding. If you are replying to several points, do not
top-post. Quote four or five lines, add your point, quote some more, add
your point, etc. (There are many lists where you will get yelled at by
the Moderator, as I found out the hard way, for even top-posting at all.
This list is not one of those. :-)
'Nuff said.
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Regards,
Clif
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