Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2005/12

From: "George Huba" <ghuba@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Trimming
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:35:02 -0500

Tim,

Or, you could choose to receive the posts as individual emails, thus getting
rid of the problem yourself -- in the manner you suggest is what happens for
those of us who do not get a digest format -- rather than asking others to
change their behavior to make your life easier.

It would be very simple for you to change your receipt method to individual
emails and just skim the top of individual messages.

Aren't we finally past that stage in the development of the Internet where
folks act like "bandwidth police?"

George

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:35 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Trimming

Folks, PLEASE take the time to trim the quoting of old messages when you
reply. In this morning's digest, there were five messages:
* 7 lines new, 25 lines quoted
* 1 line new, 144 lines quoted
* 25 lines new, 170 lines quoted
* 3 lines new, 11 lines quoted (good!)
* 1 line new, 43 lines quoted

Deb, I don't know how long you've been using e-mail, but it looks like
you may be using Outlook or Outlook Express. Outlook uses "top
posting", which means that when you reply to a message, your response
goes at the top, with the old messages below. Many people consider this
to be a bad practice in a mailing list or newsgroup; I won't go that
far, but it does require extra vigilance on your part.

The problem is, because it puts your reply at the top, you don't notice
that there are hundreds of lines of old messages below it. When you're
reading individual messages, you can just read the interesting part and
skip to the next message. But for those of us who read the digest, we
can't do that. We have to scroll manually through all of that quoted
text, hoping that we don't miss the marker that marks the next message.
It's especially difficult when there are three or four signature lines
from old postings in there, as was the case today.

If you're responding to a question, keep the question there. Otherwise,
just select that old text and get rid of it before you respond.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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