Just a reminder for those who may need it: Please follow the list rules about editing / trimming (deleting) unnecessary quoted text and all message headers, footers, Yahoo ads, list footer, etc. from your replies to list messages.
Email list netiquette calls for only quoting 2-3 lines of relevant text as reference for a response (and that quoted text should be less than your response). It is standard netiquette. Look at how other list members post. Place your response *below* the small quoted text from the message to which you are responding. Quoted text should be within brackets >>like this<< (pointing IN to the quote). Top posting is not allowed. If editing / trimming is a problem, please use a new, clean email to post to the list. Be sure your email program is set to Plain Text format (or "basic") and not HTML (or fancy text with colors and backgrounds). Posts to the list that contain large amounts of unnecessary quoted text make it very difficult for digest readers to find the replies, to search our archives, and for people who pay for local phone service by the minute. If those members have to wade through all the quotes to find your response, it may not be read or taken seriously. Digest members, especially, need to delete the whole digest from their replies. Other lists may not have these requirements (which are a basic part of email list netiquette), but we like to have our lists on the more professional side. Our archives are a very valuable source of information and we'd like to be able to keep them without being charged alot for them. I'm reasonably sure that those who quote excessively may not want to contribute to the expense it may cost us. So please snip (edit, trim) anything that's not needed and quite a few people (including the moderators :-)) will be very grateful. And thanks much for your participation on list! Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
