RE: Quoting text and reply-tos...

Lori Nowell (lcatn@ix.netcom.com)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:09:43 -0800


I didn't think the pot was thick enough so I thought I'd add another .02 cents and
a suggestion.

What I think would be very cool netiquette is when one wanted to reply to
someone else's posting, put your reply on the top and then have the copy of their
post follow < --or a snipped version--> rather than vice-versa - that way, we can
read your reply then if we need a reference to know what the conversation
was, we can scroll down. Otherwise, we have to scroll and scroll to find your
reply.

Well that was the suggestion, my .02 cents is that this is a bad list to belong to
if you have to worry a lot about bandwidth.

Lori

You wrote:
>
>
>Gen,
>
>It doesn't matter to me if someone replies with an entire message. I do it all
>the time. In fact, I'm doing it now. Maybe I am displaying poor Netiquette by
>doing so. If it really does bother most people on the list, I'd be glad to
>stop. I am in e-mail 8 hours a day and have a T-1 connection here at work, so I
>don't have bandwidth problems. Since I am at work, it would take me longer to
>chop up a post into quoted material, thus making me less productive.
>
>Paul Senior
>FPS007C@email.mot.com
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>To: acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU@INTERNET
>From: Gen.M.Kanai@Dartmouth.EDU@INTERNET on Mon, Feb 19, 1996 2:28 PM
>Subject: Quoting text and reply-tos...
>
>Hey folks,
>
>Not to be a jerk, but lets make an effort to cut down on bandwidth here when we
>quote WHOLE messages and add a few words of support or dissent.
>
>While most of us might not read everything that comes across this mailing list,
>it makes little sense to quote whole messages if you're adding only a few words
>onto those quoted thoughts.
>
>Lets make an effort to trim down quoted text while keeping it true to the
>original poster's thoughts. Most of us would rather hear your thoughts and a
>quick synopsis of the quoted text. If we can snip the quoted text to the
>essentials, we wont have to download as much as often and in general we can
>save time and energy.
>
>Does this make sense or am I being anal?
>
>Gen
>