Postings, format of

[John Woodford]

It is often--indeed, usually-- quite useful to see what a person is 
replying to right there in the message, rather than having to hunt for it 
or, worse, remember it.
It helps me appreciate the strengths or weaknesses of a rebuttal or 
refutation, so I wonder what otheres think..
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>From Tom Condit <tomcondit at igc.apc.org>, on 8/20/98 11:14 AM:
Oh, boy, I get to play my broken record again!

Will people *PLEASE* stop posting the entire text of messages they're
replying to, followed by the entire text of the messages those messages
we're replying to? I don't know about anyone else, but I'm no longer 
capable
of reading this list because of all the strings of >>>s surrounding 
whatever
the message might be.

If it's not important enough to take the time to formulate it as a
stand-alone message, it's not important enough to waste bandwidth on.

I know Doug has raised this point before, but it seems that a periodic
reminder is necessary. Probably there's some software capable of filtering
out any message in which more than half the lines are quotes from another
message, but why should LBO have to waste money on it when a little
self-restraint could do the job in a far more elegant manner?

Tom Condit