Greetings all, Gladys brings up another important element of list etiquette...
Gladys wrote: > I am new to the list and enjoy it very much. Thank you and welcome aboard! > There is only one problem. As the listees reply to the various > questions they duplicate the original message over and over again. > Some reply above the message, some below, you never know and have to > roll past the same msg repeatedly. I agree that it is a problem. The best etiquette is to cut out as much of the old message as you can and still convey the context of what you are replying to. This reply is a good example, I hope. > Please do something even though I am new I am begining to dread the > repetition. Ahh, but the only thing we can do, short of my adopting some type of manual or automated review of messages before the list re-sends them, is to *educate* ourselves and decide to form these good habits. In fact, in replying to your message I deleted an entire copy of my original message that your e-mail program had quoted. Whenever we reply to a message we are presented with a window in which we can edit how our message looks to everyone else. *THAT* is our opportunity to make it as readable and concise as possible. It would have been entirely appropriate for you to delete everything after the first few lines of my message. What you are talking about is a fundamental problem shared by all mailing lists. The only way to improve it is with education, which I hope, with your help, we've just done a wee bit! Thank you dear lady! Be well, Mike D. (da list owner) [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
