[atlantaprog] Re: STUFFING MY INBOX WITH CRAP

Grumpy rant:

One thing about some people on this forum that has always irked me is 
not WHAT they say but HOW THEY MAKE POSTS. Why do you guys hit the 
"Reply" button and post your message with the last five posts made by 
previous writers still appended at the end of your message? Don't you 
know how to SELECT TEXT and DELETE IT with your mouse and your delete 
key?

People here are making a four-line new post which contains 150 lines of 
previously quoted posts from five or six previous writers appended at 
the end. THIS IS POOR EMAIL ETIQUETTE.

The whole ARIA mail list would take up 95% less space in my email inbox 
and would require 95% less time to download if the people who post here 
would USE ETIQUETTE and DELETE extraneous previous quoted posts from 
their emails BEFORE THEY HIT THE SEND BUTTON.

Furthermore I get really irritated when I get the daily digest of all 
the posts concatonated and I have to read a new post, scroll through 
150 lines of copies of posts that I have already read just to find a 
new post to read, scroll through 150 more lines looking for the next 
new post, scroll through 150 more lines trying to distinguish between 
what I've already read and what's new, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. And I 
have to do this every day.

If you want to comment on something that someone has said before, after 
you hit the Reply key, EDIT the text that gets copied over and ONLY 
retain the parts of the MOST RECENT QUOTE that DIRECTLY pertain to the 
points you are making. Do this line by line. Delete everything else, 
including ALL PREVIOUS POSTS.

Remember, each of us has already read all the previous posts that you 
are needlessly and lazily copying into your new posts. Generally we 
don't need to read them all over again.

Sheesh.

Wheat Williams
Grumpy old man

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