please trim your posts

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Just a quick reminder: As everyone receiving these emails has already

rec'd the previous emails, they do not need to receive those again

through YOUR replies. If you are hitting " Reply " and you are not

deleting previous text, then you are likely one of the culprits!

 

If you reply to a post on this list, please take the time to delete any

unnecessary text (that may mean any text other than your comments, or

any text you are not specifically addressing.) If, out of a previous

1-page email you are commenting on only 1 sentence, them please delete

all but the 1 sentence (if you feel it important to keep that

sentence.) If your email program does not allow you to do this, then

please copy the 1 sentence (or paragraph, etc.) to a new email. Then

you may edit the text as necessary, add the appropriate " Subject " then

send it.

 

This helps focus the communication on the list. This is especially

beneficial to those on the " Daily Digest " who receive one " Digest " of

emails for the day. Those people then need to scroll all the way

through one message to get to the next message. If someone has replied

to a 2-page email and simply says " Thanks! " , then a person would have

to read through the original 2 pages, then the " thanks " , then scroll

through the repeated 2 pages, etc.. Occasionally, this is repeated by

many posts, so the same 2 page text could be repeated 4-5 times or

more! This issue has recurred since this list began. Let's make it a

non-issue.

 

I invite you to change your settings to " Daily Digest " for a few days

to understand this.

 

If there are many points to be addressed from a previous, then, on the

reply, trim to specific comments, then address each one (remember- in a

friendly manner).

 

If you have any questions about this, feel free to email me off-list or

talk to me at a potluck. For any issues on this list, please feel free

to email myself or Orion.

 

As we sometimes receive a lot of emails some days, also make an effort

to focus your posts. For some topics and points, brevity may not be

easy or possible, but keeping them concise and to the point will help

with the volume of text and may help keep people's focus and attention.

Please, always feel free to invite people to contact you off-list for

more information/clarification. If there is a web site/page with the

information, feel free to introduce it briefly, then offer the link.

That keeps in-boxes lighter and still provides the information. We have

had some fascinating information (IMO) recently. If it is not on the

web, perhaps we can arrange to place it somewhere for new-comers or for

future reference.

 

Thank you all for you help!

 

Jeff