One more time: JUST DELETE THE POST AND MOVE ON!!!
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Steven St.Laurent
C4I System Engineer
Engineering Branch, PSD, MCTSSA
MARCORSYSCOM, U.S. Marine Corps
Office (760) 725-2506 (DSN Prefix: 365)
"Information learn is power for the intellectual mind...".
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick and Kelly Engram [mailto:patrickandkelly@erols.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:30 PM
To: DML
Subject: DML: huge replies wasting bandwidth
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>Um - I'm not one to harp on the particulars of BBS posting. But I don't
>quite know how this happens.
>
>A member just posted (not faulting or blaming or scolding amyone at all)
>a message that came through on my Mozilla BBS reader - as nothing but a
>line of "re"s. I had no idea what the post was about....
>
>here's what I saw...
>
Shucks, I've just about given up on subject lines even though that's
what I scan when I read my digest.
I've just come to accept the fact if someone doesnt properly edit the
subject line, then I may not read
their post because the original subject may not be something I may be
interested at that time.
My biggest complaint recently is the huge amount of excess material
included in replies to other posts,
which can be including as much as 3-5 recent posts that just keep going
on. You can reply to a post
without resending that last 10 copies of it.
Yeah, I can understand the occasional error when someone replies to a
line in a digest and accidentally
includes the whole digest...
Here's an example, not to pick on anyone, but this was 25% of one
digest...
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