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>>>>What in blazes happened to decent email programs with decent indenting

and usage of > thingies? Not to mention the superfluous quoting (had to
delete about 100+ lines of yahoo-added-mailinglist-crap at the bottom of
the eh.. 3 quoted messages) and top-posting.





I just wish people would stop quoting entire threads and digests to add in a one or two line comment or answer. I see 35K size for a digest when reading on yahoo.com and think there's lots of great info in the digest only to discover there's about 3 useful lines of text and 35 pages of quoted material including requoted list footers.



~snakefooot



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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, daxe <snakefooot@y...> wrote:

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>
> >>>>What in blazes happened to decent email programs with decent indenting
> and usage of > thingies? Not to mention the superfluous quoting (had to
> delete about 100+ lines of yahoo-added-mailinglist-crap at the bottom of
> the eh.. 3 quoted messages) and top-posting.
>
> I just wish people would stop quoting entire threads and digests to add in a one or two

line comment or answer. I see 35K size for a digest when reading on yahoo.com and
think there's lots of great info in the digest only to discover there's about 3 useful lines of
text and 35 pages of quoted material including requoted list footers.

>

I have to say that I agree with both of you and while I've tried to implore list members to
follow proper netiquette, it's a fine line between enforcing some standards and 'nagging' -
- at which point people will either tune out or stop participating entirely. Some self
policing - such as the above - goes a long way in my opinion.

So without intent to insult anybody, here is a link to an article regarding Email Etiquette
which we could all review:

http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm.com

Regards,

Jon

Jon schreef:

> So without intent to insult anybody, here is a link to an article regarding Email Etiquette
> which we could all review:
>
> http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm.com

Thanks, Jon, for pointing that out. It's probably best to nag about it
once a year, so that the new members are aware of it as well. :)

- Peter

Jon,

The link you provided:

> http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm.com

doesn't work.

After going to this dude's homepage and finding the documentation - here's a
suggestion:
Why don't you get his permission to post that entire page to our group. It's
really short, sweet and an easy read.


eee - Edward Edwards
http://www.ezekielswheel.com
http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Edwards" <edward.edwards@v...> wrote:

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> Jon,
>
> The link you provided:
> > http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm.com
> doesn't work.

Try this instead:

http://www.iwillfollow.com/

and select the 'Email Etiquette' link from there.

>
> After going to this dude's homepage and finding the documentation - here's a
> suggestion:
> Why don't you get his permission to post that entire page to our group. It's
> really short, sweet and an easy read.

Because I don't have time for all that.


Jon

Methinks perspective required is. Rather than get all heated over the
extra FEW seconds it takes to hold the down arrow to scroll, perhaps a
week in a local homeless shelter working with people who can only
dream of one day having a warm safe home never mind a PC to connect to
the internet and have the absolute pleasure of reading other people's
thoughts. I hear them saying, "There's a netiquette??. I have to
SCROLL?? I am off back to my cardboard box and water soup".

It amazes me how often this comes up. Who cares? If you do care, you
need something else to care about and on a much grander scale than
this. Somehwere on this subject a post was made talking about having
no time to link an entire etiquette page to the group, but the time
was taken to find such a page in the first place and post a link to it
up there several times, even correcting it when it apparently did not
work.

C'mon people, there are much bigger fish to fry.

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "nuvalerium" <valerium@b...> wrote:

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>
> C'mon people, there are much bigger fish to fry.

I'm sorry, your point is?

Jon

> Methinks perspective required is. Rather than get all heated over the
> extra FEW seconds it takes to hold the down arrow to scroll,

<snip>

Um, when one is involved in a group in society, usually there are rules set
which enhance the system for use by others. Take a neighborhood civic group for
instance, which doesn't allow parking large vehicles on the street. First, it
enhances the view and second it removes an inconvenience when driving.

So what do you think deletion of trailing messages and old stuff has to do with?
Think of the archives my friend. Have you ever tried searching an archive for a
topic only to find 12 thousand incidents of your keywords -- and only 6 messages
were pertinent due to sloppy "netiquette"?

We're here to help each other. Think of it as a soup kitchen (free stuff) for
synth users. Don't throw your trash on my cardboard box, if you don't mind.

eee - Edward Edwards
http://www.ezekielswheel.com
http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of nuvalerium
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 4:06 AM
> To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Email etiquette (was Re: [AN1x] Digest Number 1651)
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>

perhaps a

> week in a local homeless shelter working with people who can only
> dream of one day having a warm safe home never mind a PC to connect to
> the internet and have the absolute pleasure of reading other people's
> thoughts. I hear them saying, "There's a netiquette??. I have to
> SCROLL?? I am off back to my cardboard box and water soup".
>
> It amazes me how often this comes up. Who cares? If you do care, you
> need something else to care about and on a much grander scale than
> this. Somehwere on this subject a post was made talking about having
> no time to link an entire etiquette page to the group, but the time
> was taken to find such a page in the first place and post a link to it
> up there several times, even correcting it when it apparently did not
> work.
>
> C'mon people, there are much bigger fish to fry.
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(And then I forgot to delete the trash beyond the message --- just forget me...)

:-/

eee - Edward Edwards
http://www.ezekielswheel.com
http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel