Well, thats not exactly what I meant. What I meant was that when you hit
"reply", the previous messages get appended to the end of your message. If
you don't delete anything, it all gets sent along with your reply. For
example, you will notice that your message follows this paragraph, with ">"
signs in front of each line. My original message follows that, with two ">"
signs before each line. If we continue this way, the thread just grows and
grows, as do the number of ">" signs. So, for example, I have deleted half
of my original message just to show that it can be done :). Normally, I
would have deleted the entire message and left only your most recent reply
quoted, unless more information is needed to make the reply clear. Hope this
is clearer. Sorry for the confusion.
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 30-Mar-2000 21:48:18 GMT
> From: Jim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Thread length
>
>
> OK, works for me.
>
> 1. I had no idea that I had "delete" authority on this list. (I,
> perhaps naievly, assumed that the list admin was the only one who could
> do that. . .)
>
> 2. -HOW- do I do this?
>
> Jim
>
> C Nelson wrote:
> > Just a friendly little reminder, folks:
> >
> > It is considered courteous and bandwidth-friendly to delete old messages
> > before you send your reply to the latest message in a thread. The recent
> > discussion about DHCP/DSN/NT grew to be a number of message replies, and
> > the
> > authors were not deleting the old messages in the thread, so 5K worth of
> > new
> > information in the digest document took up 95K. Besides eating up
> > bandwidth
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