Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: cya)

Eric Hattemer hattenator at usa.net
Fri Oct 26 12:21:16 PDT 2001


Hmm.  In general, I follow the practice of typing what I need to say on top.
When I put my signature (as lame as it may be, it's still a signature), my
message is done.  I then include any past posts below, so that if you know
what I'm talking about anyway, you can ignore all of that, or if you don't,
you can refresh your memory without looking at prior messages.

-Eric Hattemer
(read on if you don't remember what this message is concerning)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:21 AM
Subject: [luau] Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: cya)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Green" <aloha_moon at yahoo.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 5:57 AM
> Subject: [luau] Re: cya
>
>
> > I'm not leaving the list, but while we're on the subjects of
> > potential improvements... I'm suprised how many people on this list
> > (who should know better) are prone to quoting 80 lines of previous
> > post just to add a one-line response. Aside from wasting a lot of
> > bandwidth (which is mostly just form versus need these days) it makes
> > it awfully hard to distinguish what actually was added to the thread.
> >
> > Aloha,
> >
> > Rob
> >
>
> Yes!  I was going to make a stink about this earlier, but I figured most
of
> you wouldn't appreciate an e-mail etiquette Nazi.  Folks, please snip down
> the quoted part of messages that you are replying.  It makes it a LOT
easier
> for people to read the list.
>
> A few tips for Pine Users
> pico (default) editor - CTRL-K to delete the current line.
> joe editor - CTRL-Y to delete the current line
> vim editor - dd when in command mode
>
> If you use a GUI MUA, you have no excuse!
>
>
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