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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Watch your replies (was Kremen....)
Perhaps the list should be turned into a wiki; and no, while I'd like to, I'm not at this time volunteering to admin ;) Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting Inc. 212-587-8150 Office 347-526-6788 Mobile On Wed Sep 13 15:43 , [email protected] sent: > >> It's insulting >> when you trim the message to a shorter statement that you are >> responding to. The other 18 lines may not have been important to this >> particular response but they were not content free. > >If your content was in any way, interesting, then people >will have read it in the message that you posted. I see >no need to repeat a bunch of irrelevant text when I am >only replying to one point in your email. > >Personally, I wish more people would trim away all the >irrelevant junk when replying. > >On the other hand, in the corporate world I find that >the habit of top posting is very useful to me. I often >see things that were never intended to be sent to me >and I often discover that the previous replies in a thread >betray the fact that the writer did not read or did not >understand the original message. > >But on a mailing list, trimmed replies are superior. > >--Michael Dillon > >P.S. are the standards of this list so unclear that >Darcy and I have to discuss this? Who is right? > >
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