[Boatanchors] Courtesy Please

[W2HX]

Hear, hear! Al is correct. That is the correct way to do it.  Putting your reply at the top allows one to quickly read the new addition to the thread, while leaving the thread (or partially pruned) below allows one to read the entire thread instead of having to go back through archives to know what the discussion is about (because we've probably already deleted the hundred prior emails in the thread when we weren't interested..but now we've become interested in it!)

 
73 Eugene W2HX
 

-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Al Klase
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 7:00 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Courtesy Please

That's not, IMHO, the right way to handle the situation.  Go into your email client, and set it up to "start my reply ABOVE THE QUOTE."

In the old days, carefully pruning emails was a courtesy to people who were paying for their service by the byte, or had limited bandwidth.  
Here in the 2!st Century, I find it annoying to encounter a pruned reply in a thread I just became interested in, and not knowing what was going on.

If your reply is at the top of your post, it doesn't really matter how much junk is below it.

On 9/13/2012 5:12 PM, Bry Carling wrote:
> Unsubscribe me. This is just too fussy.
>
> Bill and Liz<magoo at isp.ca>  wrote:
>
>> .......If you are replying to a comment from soneone on the list and 
>> wish that the list members see your reply, PLEASE don't repeat the 
>> whole bloody post to which you are replying.  We have to scroll down 
>> through a lot of text to see what you have said and it becomes very 
>> tiresome after awhile.............


My two cents,
Al

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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/