HELP! notes/tips on posting to this list

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>2. Related to the above is dead posts. ***Please please please remove

all

aspects of the previous post that is not germane to your response.***

> Some

top posters will answer with one line and then leave all the rest of the

previous post intact. Or some folks will answer after the whole body of

a previous message with just a couple of lines that only pertain to a

portion of the message.

>Some will answer within the body of the message while still leaving

intact large portions of the message which have nothing to do with their

response. ***And others have 4 or 5 previous messages following their

response.***

>To make it easier on all of us, delete the dead portion of the posts.

~~~Oh my gosh, do I appreciate your e-mail. I have been so exasperated

lately trying to get through all the needless content of e-mail. I am so

glad you put into words what I was thinking. Maybe some people have

never understood how helpful it is to edit their message so it doesn't

contain unnecessary words.

With one group I'm on, the moderator sent me a personal e-mail with

suggestions in replying for the benefit of all. I was unsure about

something and had sent him an individual e-mail. One thing he said was

**to be sure and edit any response I sent to the group.** I was used

to doing that anyway but his response just made it all the more obvious

when others didn't follow those guide lines.

Janice