On 14 Dec 2006 at 4:25, Darcy James Argue wrote: > While this is excellent advice, since it has approximately zero > chance of ever being adopted by even a significant minority of > participants, I urge all subscribers bothered by the extensive > quoting to subscribe to the regular list, not the digest. (How hard > is it to set up a rule and just check your Finale folder once a day?)
Well, you're missing one of the main advantages of the Digest, that you only get 3 messages per day. If you want to be notified of new email when it is received, the Finale list traffic could be an annoyance that you don't want. That is, if you consider Finale messages not as important as others, the notification of the arrival of Finale messages is a distraction and can get in the way of the more important email. With the Digest, you only get a handful of notifications during the day. All that aside, it's just good practice to trim all quoted material to the kernel of material that is relevant to what your reply is about. I consider the top-posting style with the whole thread quoted below to be an abomination and a huge mistake on the part of the designers of email programs that designed their quoting to work that way. It leads to a huge amount of completely unnecessary material to be sent and encourages stupid replies where pages and pages are quoted with nothing but "I agree!" or "Thanks!" at the top. The main rule: trim the unnecessary material, whether you top-post or do it the traditional way, and then nobody will be able to complain. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
