[TheForge] to damn many attachments

[Jerry Frost]

Agreed shouting isn't necessary and certainly isn't 
polite.

However not trimming the repeating junk from posts is 
just as if not more rude. I think we know Thomas isn't 
talking about "attachments," it's all the repeated 
footers, signoffs and full posts hanging off the end of 
all too many posts. Sometimes the original post is 
repeaded in every reply that appears with an ever 
increasing repeat of every reply, ad naseum.

It isn't hard to trim a post when replying and several 
ways to do it. Personally I like having any text 
included from the original post marked with the little 
arrow heads >>>>. It makes it easy to tell what I've 
written in response to what I'm replying to. I trim as 
much of the original post as possible to retain the 
meaning, context, etc. to my reply.

One way to do this is highlight the part of the 
original post then hit "Reply". The highlighted text 
will be the only thing carried through to the reply 
message. This doesn't work for me unfortunately so I 
have to revert to the next method.

I hit reply then delete everything not related to my 
reply. Sometimes I intersperse my reply in the 
preceeding post.

Another way is to cut and paste the text you're 
replying to into the new message. This loses the > 
indicators though so it makes for a more confusing 
reply as it's harder to tell the new from the old.

I trim the header so only the poster's name and E-mail 
address remains. The From: line. Who needs to see the 
date, subject line, etc. AGAIN?

Also, who needs to see all of the last 15 posts with 
arrowheads stacked like cordwood trailing for nine, ten 
or thirty pages when the current poster is only saying 
something like. "Nice work!" or "Congratulations!" or 
"I agree!" etc. Heck, a one word reply is no worse than 
three pages of well thought out informative text if 
there's 50kb of needless repeated crap hanging from it. 
Seriously, start scrolling down messages and see how 
much totally unnecessary junk is still there for no 
good reason.

So, I agree shouting in frustration is a really poor 
first post. (I think; I don't recall seeing anything 
from Thomas before but I could be wrong)

On the other hand I understand the frustration. Some 
folk are still on dialup connections and all the 
unnecessary crap can choke dialups to a standstill for 
no reason other than too many posters either just don't 
care or are too lazy to do a little trimming.

Trimming is easy though it may take a few seconds and a 
little thought. Not being able to receive your E-mail 
because your connection times out from the needless 
overload is more than inconvenient.

Frosty
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From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>


> TheForge doesn't allow attachments...
>
> And, shouting is rude.
>
> On 10/4/07, Thomas Benda <bendathomas at gmail.com> 
> wrote:

>> WOULD YOU PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE JUST COPY THE 
>> SUBJECT
>> AND THAN FORMULATE YOUR REPLY AS A SEPARATE E-MAIL.
>>
>> I AM VERY TIRED OF HAVING TO PLOW THROUGH THE MANY 
>> COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL
>> MESSAGE JUST TO READ THE RESPONSES.
>>
>> THANX
>> an unhappy member
>
>
> -- 
> Saint Phlip
>