[at-l] In the interest of loooooong posts

[wb4pan@mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

Hey,

	Most of the time I would rather see a complete statement from your reply. Rather than "I agree with John" type a full statement "I agree with John the sky is blue".
	I thread my mail. Most mail programs will do that for you. What this means is with a click of one button I can put all replies for a particular subject together in chronological order. That way I follow the same subject, I do not need to read "quote after ever long growing quote" I can remember that long haha. If a message comes in the next day with the same subject and a reply that is not a complete statement I can then read the "quote" if I have forgotten the subject.
	Don't forget the archives if there is something you really want to reread. Hey this is just my way of doing it after many years on other listsevers that require you follow a prescribed format. Don't stop posting cause ya don't understand all this pc stuff. We still want to hear from you. Especially if it remotely has something to do with hiking. :-)


chase


Orange Bug wrote:
> 
> I call the quote and response postings "Death by Parsing." Truly
> miserable to read.
> 
> The big reason to limit quoting the original post is that you wind up
> tuning out the digest readers. I'd hate to guess the number of messages
> they see with the list information quoted and requoted. Usually, just a
> sentence or two will get the connection done. It is a bit of
> "nettiquette."
> 
> Bill...
> 
> --- Leslie Booher <lwbooher@halifax.com> wrote:
> > ...  Also, I hate the ones where they quote the original poster
> > line by line, then fill in their responses in between.  ...
> >
> > anklebear, who proudly leaves the original post dangling at the
> > bottom of her response  <G>
> >
> 
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