At 09:29 AM 6/22/2007 -0400, you wrote: >I have another suggestion. For me part of it is just the amount of >space an article takes up which can seem endless sometimes that I >just move on and maybe miss someone's post past it. What I would >suggest is just posting a one or two liner about the content of the >article and then the link - then the people who want to read it can >and the people who want to move on can without it feeling cumbersome.
Dear Sigrid and Friends--Sigrid's suggestion is the standard operating procedure for many of the other professional mailing lists of which I am a subscriber. A short "subject" message with the link is all that is required. This also eliminates the "me too" response wherein the one line "me too" message is sent to the list along with the *entire* previous post, as very frequently happens on this list. Good "Netiquette" requires that you erase all but the key points of a previous post, especially if it is very long, before replying with your own comments to the post. This reduces bandwidth and the time it takes to process e-mail. I receive 250-300 e-mails per day, so if our fellow list members would follow the above suggestions it would certainly make life easier for me and many other folks. My $.02. Tom Tom Shelley 118 E. Court St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607 342-0864 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.myspace.com/99319958 _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
