[wplug] Re: A gentle reminder on posting etiquette

[O'Connor, Michael P.]

All that is being asked is that you trim the quoted stuff to just what
you are responding to, so instead of including a whole digest for a day,
you only include the relevant post from the digest.  Or if you are
replying to a long email, you trim out what is not important, or trim
some of the older quoted text so you don't have a running log of the
whole discussion in each e-mail coming though the pipe (such as I did in
this one I cut off Bills stuff, but left all of your stuff).

Michael P. O'Connor
US&S 
Office: 412-688-2491 
Cell: 412-498-0667
mpoconnor at switch.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Simkins
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:54 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] Re: A gentle reminder on posting etiquette

Is it really etiquette or are we trying to minimize duplication for the 
email digest?  I have a hard time being offended over whether comments
are 
posted at the top or bottom.  It is good to keep the messages short for
the 
purposes of following it.

In my little microsoft world, I am very accustomed to hitting the reply 
button and typing above the entire thread.  In fact, I get horribly
confused 
when I get email from folks at AOL which seems to default to drop the 
previous parts of the thread and I can be totally lost over what the
subject 
of the comment is.

So please clarify whether the rules you are debating are to avoid some
sort 
of offense or to save bytes of storage on the WPLUG mail server.