We are suggesting this new posting rule on technical grounds. Please
note that virtually all of you have already been following this rule
implicitly. However some recent postings have revealed this as an
issue.
Here is the text:
"Each of your posted replies should be to a SINGLE canals-list posting.
Doing otherwise (i.e. responding to multiple posts in the same reply)
causes a problem for subscribers whose software allows them to display
messages in hierarchical threads, like the yahoo groups website allows
and like some email/news readers allow. Replies branch out from the
original posting, and further branches from those replies, and so on.
The problem is that a multiple-post-reply message destroys this useful
view, while providing little, if any, benefit."
Comments welcomed.
If this flys, it will be added to our netiquette (found at
www.canals.com/netiquet.htm).
- george [canals-list co-manager]
with the agreement of Bob, the other co-manager
