Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2009/05

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re:question on e-mail posting
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:15:52 -0400

On Monday 25 May 2009, Clinton F. Nieweg wrote:
> From: William Foss <billfoss47@-----.net>
> Subject: question
>
> >>Has anyone else noticed a lack of email traffic lately ?
>
> ---
> Would there be more discussions if the posters removed much of
> information in the previous messages? It is difficult when
> receiving the digest to see what is a new post and what is one of
> many questions and answers.
>
> The basic e-mail (listserv) etiquette posted on other lists:
>
> This is just a reminder to subscribers. Please be careful when
> replying to messages by including only essential parts of the
> original message(s). The long messages which sometimes include an
> entire string of comments may clog up individual mail in-boxes
> and cause all sorts of related problems. Most email systems allow
> you to edit the entire message--deleting unnecessary text,
> signature files, etc. which will help to shorten the new
> comment/message.
>
>
> Your thoughts?
>

When I first subscribed to the klarinet list, back in 19-something,
I chose the digest option. I soon found it virtually unusable
because with all the quotes and quotes of quotes it was almost
impossible to tell where one message ended an another began. I
thought at the time it would be useful if the mailing list software
put a clear separator in between messages when constructing the
digest (something like '-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*...' for example). Then you
could use the search function to skip to the start of each message.

I soon gave up and changed to receiving individual messages.

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

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