Try the delete key. It works wonders!!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun.Hendricks@bergenbrunswig.com
<Shaun.Hendricks@bergenbrunswig.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 7:42 PM
Subject: DML: Silly Long posts
>
>
> In order for Bernd to express his "Well Put!" he opted to subject the
list
>to an entire quote of 2 days of discussion (including quoting himself
twice)
>in, not only, text format but also in HTML tagged format.
> Not intending to just pick on him, but quote-mania as a whole. On old
BBS
>systems (most had poor thread following) it was a necessary evil, but with
>modern e-mail it's not necessary. I am subscribed to the DML digest
version.
>Those of us with this version have to scroll through these posts of
incredible
>lengths just to get to the next message. It's not too fair to the other
>DML'ers to have their posts get accidentally skipped because I'm trying to
>scroll past the HMS Titanic of the Quote Seas.
> I don't care about the "Me Too"'s and "Well Put"'s of the planet as long
as
>they don't quote all of the original message if it's some long one. I also
>saw another set of 6 deep quote >>>>>> symbols in two different posts
today.
>If you have all original material and it goes for 120 lines, I don't really
>care, but all of this quoting and duplicate html stuff is getting WAAAAY
out
>of hand.
> I don't have the ability to filter or re-direct mail so I have to suffer
>when inconsiderate posts are made. I suppose I'll just have to live with
it
>since those who are doing it most don't seem to care, unless Jon can filter
>the crap out at the server level, which would make him a mail server GOD in
my
>book.
> I won't post anything else on this topic to the list as it's a silly
waste
>of Bandwidth to educate people in common courtesy and netiquette.
>
>Shaun H.
>
>(note quote of less than a single generation)
>---original message---
>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:47:53 -0600
>From: "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@texas.net>
>Subject: RE: DML: Which motor oil to use?
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>Well put!
>
>
>At 04:23 PM 3/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Here's my $.02----- Personally, I use Castrol... I've had more Cars and
>>Trucks than my age and all of them I sold or traded with 200K to 300K plus
>>with no Oil Related Problems... Asking what is the best
>...
><and on and on and on and on... ad nauseum>
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