atw: Re: Request: Please trim your posts
- From: Peter Johnson <peterjohnson.oz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:08:23 +1000
Good advice Lee.
Let's do this folks.
Cheers,
Peter
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Lee O'Mahoney
<leeomahoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As someone who receives email 'digests' from this list, could I ask you to
> please trim the information from previous posts, other than that on which
> you specifically want to comment.
>
> On this list, the formatting in the digest is extremely basic and it's
> hard to tell where one post starts. When people include all information
> from a previous post, or ten previous posts, it's time consuming finding
> the beginning of the next post.
>
> Trimming previous posts, or not including any of the information in the
> previous post, is common protocol on many lists. Moderators will often
> reject untrimmed messages.
>
> If you'd like to quote information from a previous post, this is what many
> groups do:
>
> //This is sentence or para the previous poster included and to which I'd
> like to respond.//
>
> This is my response.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee
>
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