[cod] Arnhem Map Failure
Flight 800
Flight800 at Comcast.net
Wed Sep 29 00:44:36 EDT 2004
> I don't like wadding through over 50 lines of crap to find
> the 4 lines of actual content, yes those are the actual
> figures for that post of john's. If you do all well and good
> but I'd rather educate people to try an cut down their posts,
> its just consideration and not much to ask.
I agree. There are actually _rules_ of etiquette to abide by when posting
to an email list, especially if it is frequented by technical people. See
how I quoted only the relevant content above, and then replied neatly below
it?
This is taken from a red hat mailing list I'm on:
--- begin ---
-- Contextual quoting is preferred, i.e.
Quoting user1 (<user1 at somedomain.redhat.com>):
> Some limited text that will give context.
>
Your reply.
versus
Your reply, lazily put at the top.
Quoting user1 (<user1 at somedomain.redhat.com>):
> The whole big blob of the previous posts, including
> signatures and all
In fact, the author of the program stops following a thread
the moment this lazy quoting method is used. He figures that
if you can't take half a minute of your time to save multiple
minutes of the readers time, the heck with ya.
--- end ---
Also see: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
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