[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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