Garbage, garbage!

[Henry]

Okay, Mr. Can-of-Worms-Guy :-)

As a not-infrequent poster, one mistake in "netiquette" that gets me is when
people "reply-to-all" in order to reply to the list and not just to the
sender of a message, but they forget, or simply don't know that it's a good
idea to delete the individual recipients and then move the P-list address to
the "To:" field as I have done in this message, thereby putting a few less
duplicates in people's email inboxes. (see message below for a convenient
example of this common mistake :-)

I agree with John K on trimming quoted messages for utility rather than
completeness.

Henry Musikar
Information, Process, Media, and Technology Consultant
(just got canned; no, not caned, canned, and 
I'm looking for work, resume available on request)
http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Krafft, John M. Dr.
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:55 PM
To: David Morris
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: RE: Garbage, garbage!

Hmm. I could believe that, thanks.

Now, if it doesn't bother anyone but me, I'll just have to lump it. But even
people who aren't bothered might want to reflect that broken-up words will
make archive searches difficult.

Do you think, if we asked nicely, we could persuade everyone to start
sending only plane-text messages to the list, even if it requires a little
forethought each time? Or would that risk igniting another flame war as has
been known to happen when people suggest, say, that posters trim a few
generations of the replies their messages trail (ya know, those html
duplicates within html duplicates within ... really eat up the space)?

jmk

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John M. Krafft