FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #26

["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 02:52:30 -0500 (EST), FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:

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> arachne Digest        Fri, 23 Jan 2004        Volume: 02  Issue: 026

PUH-LEASE peoples, can I ask for a bit of common sense when you
are posting to the Digest list?

The Idea of the digest format is that ALL the previous mail is
available, either in the current issue or in previous ones.

So what is the point of including excessive quotes, or quotes of
quotes, or -- as I saw in this issue -- quotes to the seventh
power, that is quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of
quotes of quotes!

To give you some idea, in this issue there are over 500 lines, of
which I counted just under 100 lines of actual new messages
including their respective headers, and a slightly lesser number
of lines of primary quoted text, only some of which was relevant
to the message it was attached to.

The rest was quotes of quotes.... with proportionately decreasing
relevance to the message being posted.

As well as that I found eleven occurrences of the [Sponsored by:]
footer, which added another 99 lines to the digest.

All of this stuff makes the digest almost unreadable and could be
eliminated by a little selective editing by the posters.

So please fellows (and I use the term generically), let's cut
back a little on the size of these replies.

Now the question remains: should I leave the _whole_ of the digest
attached to this message as a quote?

Greg M.


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