Guest guest Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 Just a quick reminder to ask you guys to please make sure you delete the previous text from your e-mails. Unless quoting is necessary we need to remember that some people pay a lot of money for their e-mail service and in some cases it's based on length of the e-mails. Thanks! Cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 Why wouldn't you go on webmail if there's a fee for getting emails? Then you could look at messages whenever you want using Netscape or Internet Explorer, and not pay a fee. I love the Webmail interface. Take care, RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 RH, I don't really have an answer for you on that one, however it is typical e-mail list Netiquette to not leave complete posts at the end of a reply when you send it. Many e-mail servers do this and it's just common courtesy to get rid of it so others (especially people on this list that have visual problems) don't have to weed through it. I noticed there were some e-mails where there were 2, 3 and sometimes 4 other replies at the bottom below the person's response. Cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 I have short-term memory issues, so I tend to leave posts at the bottom. That way I have some kind of record of what I was responding to. Take care, RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 My take on this, as I've said here before, has to do with the way SOMETIMES the trailer of replies to replies to replies gets really gigantic, and FURTHERMORE has no relevance to the latest " conversation " of a given single email. This is really just a pain when you get the email in digest (up to 25 messages at a time) as I do, and have to scroll a very long way (sometimes overshooting and having to back up) just to get to the next message. For example, I've seen posts where the trailers are about something entirely different that just happened to trigger a back-and-forth discussion. So it's a courtesy to people like me, to snip off old stuff WHEN IT'S IRRELEVANT. But it's not always irrelevant. I found it actually a bit amusing, that Cindy's original post on this subject had no trailers, not needing any, but then both RH in her reply, and Cindy in her reply to RH, scrupulously snipped off everything after their own latest remarks. This rendered each of their responses potentially confusing, insofar as you must know what the conversation is about (from having followed it previously) in order to fully decipher the meaning. So in other words (double meaning intended), snip away, but there's no need to obliterate a small amount of trailer if it makes a post self-clarifying. Reminds me of an amusing suggestion (I don't recall the author) that a solution to a problem should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. :-) Steve D. P.S. The original reason for this long-standing Netiquette is that the total TIME to get a single email up on your screen (webmail or ANYother way) depends on the total message SIZE. In the old days at very slow dial-up speeds, it was excruciating to wait a long time for a (frequently) short message and it's lengthy sometimes-irrelevant trailers. This point is less true now, but still relevant for us throw-backs that don't have high-speed internet (like me). > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:09:09 -0600 > > Subject: Re: Re: list e-mail reminder > > RH, > > I don't really have an answer for you on that one, however it is typical e-mail list Netiquette to not leave complete posts at the end of a reply when you send it. Many e-mail servers do this and it's just common courtesy to get rid of it so others (especially people on this list that have visual problems) don't have to weed through it. I noticed there were some e-mails where there were 2, 3 and sometimes 4 other replies at the bottom below the person's response. > > Cindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 > So in other words (double meaning intended), snip away, but there's > no need to obliterate a small amount of trailer if it makes a post > self-clarifying. I just want to reiterate that some of us have cognitive issues, some of us have hearing issues, some of us have vision issues. Minimizing unnecessary text should help everybody, but also not all of us are cognitively 100% when composing our emails. On the other hand, it could help if people write " LONG " at the end of their subject if the email is more than 50 lines, then we would know when we're in for a long read (either because of quotes or a long story). Maybe someone can find us a brief " netiquette " / " news group etiquette " list, or do a custom one for . Take care, RH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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