[Elecraft] A Heartfelt Plea

[Phil Wheeler]

Hi, David -- and welcome to the list.

Generally I agree with your comment, though I'm 
sure I occasionally forget to edit as much as I 
should.  OTOH -- deleting too much can make the 
reply pretty hard to understand, so both extremes 
should be avoided.

The other thing is that these lists were never 
designed to be read on the limited screen of a 
smartphone -- and since I sometimes use mine to 
read the messages, I realize what a problem the 
limited real estate of those screens can cause. 
Still, I'd rather read here with my iPhone than 
post messages here with it's keyboard:-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 12/29/14 11:54 PM, David Bondy G4NRT wrote:
> I know that I am new to this list but I’d like to make a plea from the heart (I will be posting the same plea on some other groups):
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> Would list members please, please, please think about what they are doing when they quote an entire message (and sometimes many, many replies) when posting to the list.
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> Sometimes there are quotes of quotes of quotes and the content is actually just one line!
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> In the main, I read this list on my phone and I sometimes find it almost impossible sometimes to actually find the intended content!
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> What’s wrong with editing what you’re going to quote - and perhaps using <snip> to show that you’ve done it?
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> Thank you for reading this and I hope that it will have a positive effect.
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> 73
>
> David G4NRT