a netiquette plea - no more glumph pleeez

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Hello all

 

with conversations and threads running thick and fast lately, the

amount of 'stuff' one receives in the daily digest - a great way to

follow what's happening - is just extreme.

 

I belong to another group in which top-posting is prohibited.

And you get a little tap on the shoulder from moderators if you do.

Repeat offenders may post-no-more!

The expectation is that we edit extraneous stuff from original posts,

and take the time to deliberately respond to specific points.

 

This keeps us all neat, succinct, and on-purpose, and probably a

little less emotional when we're into a provocative topic.

 

I call 'glumph' all those previous posts to a thread, which are

repeated over and over, and running for ages and pages beneath most

posts... not the ideas and opinions, just the repetitionnnnnnnnnnnnn

arrgg

 

This list's own Netiquette files state:

 

" Don't quote back an entire message when only responding to one or

two points.

Delete the excess and make a note at the very top before starting the

quotes.

Some e-mail programs will automatically set up to quote the original

message when replying and put you at the end of that message. This is

very annoying to your recipients. "