Harvey Sachs wrote:
> Another issue, for which I don't have an answer. I think we continue to
> drag everything in a thread along for the ride much too long. Amazing
> how much bandwidth goes into repeating the same things... I don't know
> if this warrants guidance from Herr "Listmeister"
This is a fairly common issue, and is addressed in an Internet RFC document:
http://tools.ietf.org/
C.f. section 3.1.1 "General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews"
- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include the entire original!
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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA