On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:12, Kwan Lowe wrote: <heavy snip> > > A better idea is to read the Usenet etiquette guidelines. You don't need > to agree or follow every one of them, but some make sense. For example, > when replying to a post, quote only the relevant portions of the email. > This list has had some very long emails, quoting not only multiple > signature lines, but every response in the thread. Many times only one > or two lines were added to a hundred plus line post. > Kwan,
I agree with snipping and stand as guilty as anyone of being lazy. However I cut religiously sigs. But as far as traffic goes this list can't touch cooker.. Now that's volume (800 to a thousand a day during crunch time!) I've learned way to much "following" threads if this list dropped to 2 or 3 mails per thread it would become as useless a a forum for me. Oh yes and if the problem is a good one... Summarize in the community twiki *grin* James
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