[R-390] Reminder

Don Reaves W5OR [email protected]
Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:51:28 -0600


Harry brings up a good point.  Blind quotes of the message you are replying
to isn't necessary.  That is a holdover from ancient Internet days when
responses to an email were far and few between and it was difficult or
impossible to see the source post.  It now annoys the heck out of the digest
readers.  So please put this request under the 'be courteous' heading.  Use
quoting like you would use DeOxit - sparingly.

Sending one line replies to hundred line quotes is certainly going to
attract attention from the floggers.

> I'd add a #3, or maybe a corollary to #2:
>   -Avoid overquoting.  Bandwidth and courtesy to digest users
> Harry