FLASH: Dear [ADMIN] Please Confirm: Please Trim Your Posts and Label Them Properly

[Frederico]

Hi Folks,


[in a polite and helpful tone wishing nothing but to make this list 

better for all]


I'd like to take an extra moment of your time (since many of you are 

taking tons of mine) to remind you to *PLEASE* trim the unnecessary text 

from your posts.


While I realize many of you have email clients set to automatically 

include the text you are replying to, and that text doesn't always appear 

in the composition window, you need to be aware that you may be replying 

to post that already has quoted all three and sometimes ten times before.


Lately this has gotten ridiculous, and people need to get it under 

control for the sake of those with slow connections, per-minute 

bandwidth, archivists and digest subscribers.


Also, please try to do a better job marking off-topic posts with the 

'[OT]' tag (sans quotes; note the square brackets) so that email filters 

can deal with what other people may consider noise.


Finally, many of you still need to reduce your sig lines to a 

considerate, respctful amount.


Sam has posted similar requests of you, and I'm happy to remind you now 

and again, but, please, let's lead by example for any newbies who join.


Frederico



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