May I please make a request, especially on behalf of digest
subscribers, that posters please edit their replies to the list to
quote only relevant text (without taking anything out of context) and
remove all extraneous headers and footers?
I just received a post with 6 footers and 5 headers; each reply was
at the top of the previous message and contained the entire thread.
That's hard enough to deal with when receiving individual messages,
but darn near impossible to decipher for digest subscribers, which is
more than half of the list. When the entire thread is quoted in a
reply, the digest ends up being mostly duplication and extremely
difficult to read.
I don't wish to start an argument about top- vs bottom-quoting*
(though I will state my strong preference for the latter, since a
thread then reads in logical order), but I would ask that at the
least, multiple headers and footers be deleted before hitting the
send button.
Thanks!
Dan
* - see http://www.redballoon.net/~snorwood/quote-rant.shtml or
http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html for a couple of rants with which I
agree :-)
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