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At 10:19 AM -0700 8/4/01, Mark wrote: >Anyway, what I DO HATE is that when people respond to such sales on list: >Re: >Gear for Sale. "How much" Re: Gear for Sale. "500" Re: Gear for Sale. >"Does >that include shipping?" etc... you get it. While I'm on the subject, >this >list is really bad with "Me too-ism" and "lol-ism" I think we'd all >benefit a >lot if people thought a bit about what they were writing, and consider if >it's >meaningful to the whole list, or is it just directed to an individual. >Take >private banter between individuals OFF LIST. along those lines, some people have pretty bad habits about not editing messages they are replying to. Don't just leave the whole damn thing in there that everybody already saw, and just stick some new stuff on the top. (what I think of as lazy corporate email style.) That's a big waste of bandwidth and really sucks on the digest. Edit down to the stuff you are actually replying to. And try to make some effort to differentiate your reply from the original. With some people's replies, you can hardly tell! Also, HTML is for web pages, not email, no matter what some email programs want you to believe. HTML (and rich text) takes up way more space than plain text, and usually adds nothing to an email that is all text anyway. Another big waste of bandwidth. Your HTML posts are pretty much unreadable in the digest version of the list, and look like crap for people using mail software that doesn't really support html. Post in plain text! >Most lists have this as a hard >rule, but Kim prefers a less restrictive list, and I applaud him for it. >It >does put the responsibility on the individual... It's kind of like what >America was supposed to be ;^) It's true, although I've been tempted to add restrictive filters that block html and attachments. Some lists I know of even reject posts unless they have a certain percentage of new material versus quoted text being replied to, which I've also thought of. But I've never bothered because most people get "advised" about these things pretty quickly and straighten up. I really do prefer that the list community regulate itself, and mostly this one does. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com