[TriLUG] Rant: Please trim responses

[John F Davis]

Hello

I agree that its best to snip stuff.

Furthermore, I am writing because I still remember getting nasty grams from
some dude on the internet
because I was doing my follow-up's at the top of mails instead of doing
them at the bottom.  ie. i'm doing it now
and John Matthews did the follow-up at the bottom.

I still think its best to do the follow-up in context to the note.  For
instance, some bit of info at the top where
its read first and the relative follow-up by paragraph in the previous note
itself.  This assumes your mailer
can do this however.   This  mailer can't do the ">" prefix which is
necessary for such a method.

JD

PS. I'm still wondering why no one has answered my dual boot of second
drive using grub question.
Surely someone has done this whom I haven't pissed off yet so as to ignore
all my notes.



John Matthews <jvmatthe at math.duke.edu>@trilug.org on 03/20/2002 09:48:20 AM

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Subject:    Re: [TriLUG] Rant: Please trim responses



On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:36, Mike Johnson wrote:
> Could you do us all a favor and trim your responses?  Include the
> relavant bits that you're responding to, but there's no need to quote
> the previous message, and the message previous to that, and the
> message previous to that, all the way back to the beginning of the
> thread.

Mike, I'm with you. However, I've had this discussion with my wife
because I showed her how outrageous some of the email that bounces
around her department looks when you really start to consider that
*most* of the information in the replies was useless lines from previous
mails in the thread. She says my attitude is elitist, and has nothing to
do with clear, concise communication as I've tried to portray it. I
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