Hi Christy, fellow members, Below is an email on netiqutte I keep on hand to send to folks who don't= understand why we need to have some guidelines. I also attempt to inform new users, and hopefully set a good example, by= teaching them how to use email correctly. If I'm going to send someone an attachment I will send them an email before= time with the file name and size so that they can be aware of it. Here is a good site explaining why we should trim our post to a group. http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/courtesy6.html Always edit out unnecessary information from a post you are responding to. Don't just hit the reply button and start typing. Edit out unimportant= parts of the email you are responding to and respond point by point. This= is accomplished by deleting information from the previous mail that is not= necessary to continuing the conversation. At the very least edit out email= headers and signature files. Lazy is hitting reply and sending a one word= answer.... please. Is your time more important than those you are sending= to? Aren't your associates or friends worth taking the time to make= communicating with you easy? Especially when email conversations on the same topic are ongoing. Why= would you possibly want to have copies of the last 3-4 (or more) emails= added to the growing list of back and forth? You make the person you are= communicating with look for your response amongst all the text. By not editing your email, your lack of understanding in regards to smooth= communications, bandwidth and trying to keep the online environment not= overloaded with unnecessary noise will be apparent. Edit/delete what is= not necessary for the conversation to continue. Leave sufficient content so that the thread, (subject) does not get lost. If you are sending an email, on a new topic, don't forget to fill in the= 'subject'. This will save a lot of time when someone tries to search for your= particular message, as a search for 'no subject' may bring up a lot of= messages, or none. <g> As a courtesy to your fellow Netizens, please edit down your posts keeping= only what will contribute to the ongoing conversation. Mike the Mod ******* Mike's REPLY SEPARATOR ********* On 3/3/2005 at 5:36 PM cristy wrote: I need to think of a polite way to tell a few people to take my name off of= their lists as I do not like to receive all of their jokes, miscellaneous stuff, etc.. other than something I am corresponding with them about. I see my name with a ton of their friends etc.. and I guess they forward their jokes or whatever to all of us just because I have corresponded in the past= with them. christy S N IP -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk