[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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