Pardon my list-nanny routine, but ... or, Ware's Tim when we need him?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Jun 17 08:28:39 CDT 2009


On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Krafft, John M. wrote:

> Why did so many people seem to decide a few weeks ago that it was  
> good list etiquette to stop using plane text and to stop snipping  
> egregiously extraneous multiply-embedded old threads?

Sorry & I hope my attempts at editing the posts I'm responding to and  
sending off my posts in plain text has been successful.

> It gets so bad that sometimes I'm tempted to suspect the worst  
> offender, whom I won't name, of doing it on purpose on the juvenile   
> principle that causing annoyance is better than being ignored.

I suspect sloth and amnesia.

> Please, foax, clean up your acts. Beyond the annoyance factor, some  
> messages are all but unreadable, and links won't work if there's  
> garbage in them. Thanks.
>
> John

You're welcome,
Robin




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