[78-L] Oops!

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Sammy Jones wrote:
>> Sorry about quoting the entire Digest (and not changing my subject line 
>> to
>> be "more specific"!)
> We weren't going to send the Netiquette Police after you, but this is a 
> good
> opportunity to point this out..when you respond to a message, Please..
> (1) Make sure the subject line deals with the message, especially when
> responding to something received in the digest.
>
I used to "update" subject lines to reflect the new content; however, I 
caught
merry hades from a couple of folks who file their received e-mail by subject
in order to keep threads together...since my new subject-line entries made
that difficult at best! Any thoughts here?

> (2) Please quote SOME part of the original message! There are too many 
> one-line
> messages showing up that refer to long-deleted or forgotten topics, most 
> of
> them rather nasty in tone.
>
BUT...there is NO need to re-post the entire original message, which we have
presumably already seen! Simply use "Edit" and "Copy" to put into your post
the RELEVANT line(s) in the original you are answering or commenting
upon...?!

...stevenc