Yeah, I usually delete messages from people that complain, moan and bitch about things posted here-- and are the one's that typically don't contribute to the list whatsoever.
Hey, that's sounds so familiar!
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> From: blackdak@tampabay.rr.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:28:58 US/Eastern
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: RE: huge replies wasting bandwidth
>
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> I pretty much delete all posts from St. Laurent, as most of them are a waste of
> time to read (not to mention almost impossible to comprehend) and irrelevant to
> the topic at hand. (Does he even have a Dakota?)
>
> Alex
> 97 CC Sport V8 5spd
> >
> > One more time: JUST DELETE THE POST AND MOVE ON!!!
> >
> > --------------------------------------
> > 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
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >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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