My pet peeve is people who quote too much when replying to the list. In
particular, people who quote the entire original message right down to
the footer.
As many of you know, I send out a reminder whenever I see that. It reads:
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This is a semi-automatic message from Dan, the listmom.
Thanks for posting to the list.
Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the original message (your
recent posting is quoted below) when replying to the list -- especially
the header and/or footer. (You're not being singled out; we send this to
everyone who does that.)
Thanks!
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Since August 24, I've sent out 105 such messages to 85 different
subscribers. The encouraging thing is that most seem to catch on quickly,
eliminating the need for multiple notes. Those who get more than 4-5 of
these notes may have posting privileges suspended -- I'm that serious
about it.
Anyhow, here's an analysis by domain. Each subscriber is only counted
once, and only domains with 2 or more reminders since August 24 are
counted:
yahoo.com IIIIIIIIIIII
mac.com IIIIIII
bellsouth.net III
earthlink.net III
sympatico.ca III
home.com II
mindpring.com II
rcn.com II
For those of you who look down on AOL users, only one AOL user showed up
on this list. Maybe that means AOL makes it hard to quote back or quote
back too much -- I don't know.
It's interesting that far and away the highest number of offenses came
from free email services. I suspect that Yahoo makes it too easy to quote
the entire original -- am I right?
For the record, here are the most popular domains on the LEM-Swap list,
our list with the most subscribers (710 active subscriptions as of this
morning):
yahoo.com 66
mac.com 64
aol.com 57
earthlink.net 43
home.com 29
hotmail.com 22
All the rest are under 10 subscribers on the LEM-Swap list. I'm assuming
membership on that list is fairly representative of the other lists.
Consider this your occasional reminder from the List Mom to be aware of
how your email program works and be careful to quote selectively when
replying to the list.
Thanks!
Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
publisher, Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/>
publisher, Digital-Views.com <http://digital-views.com/>
publisher, Digigraphica <http://digigraphica.com/>
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the
illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and
demoralization. - Petronius
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