Sheldon: I am caught and taught. However,
" Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,
>From the first point of his appointed sourse,
And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.'
-- Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queen
JB Froke Pebble Beach CA
-- ----- Original Message ----- From: Sheldon Brown<mailto:CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com> To: JB Froke<mailto:jbfroke@msn.com> ; classicrendezvous<mailto:classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: May 05, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Subject lines and quoting (was Re: [CR]Cirqule Jerqules)
At 12:56 PM -0700 5/5/05, JB Froke wrote: >Speak for yourself! > >JB Froke, Pebble Beach, CA
When replying to threads on email lists, it would really help if you would either quote relevant parts of the message you're replying to, or leave the "Subject:" line intact.
When you change the "Subject:" line for a reply, _and_ don't quote, it makes it difficult or impossible to know what/whom you're replying to.
Not every list subscriber reads every posting in the list; I typically get over 4,000 emails per day, so I have to be a bit selective.
Sheldon "Puzzled" Brown
Newtonville, Massachusetts
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| And the end of all our exploring |
| Will be to arrive where we started |
| And know the place for the first time. |
| --T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets |
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