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Subject: Re: Sorry, but take a look again at the search depths...

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 05:31:08 04/24/02

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On April 24, 2002 at 08:03:01, Martin Andersen wrote:
>
>Why the hell do people quote the whole message, sometimes several
>screens, and then write a few words below ?
>This is bad practice.
>
>Martin.

Good question, I don't like it either, but many people here at CCC do not stick
to the usual nettiquette for proper quoting.

Perhaps we can educate them a little ;)

"Quoting is a necessary courtesy to the readers of your reply. It helps to
clarify the point you are making, as well as remind others of what you are
replying to. Only quote the relevant part(s) of the message, and NEVER quote a
long message in it's entirety. Everyone got it the first time just like you did
and it's a waste of time and bandwidth. The absolute worst thing you can do is
to repeat a lengthy message (including the sig!) and at the end say nothing more
than "Yeah! What he said." If you don't have anything more constructive to add,
DON'T REPLY! "

http://www.texasflood.com/srvfaq/srvfaq6.htm

-S.



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