Re: META: Gentlefolk, please maintain include trimming discipline

From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 23:18:02 MST


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 mark@unicorn.com <mark@unicorn.com>

>most of the worst offenders [long boring redundant quotations] seem to be
>using Microsoft software

That's no excuse, I use Microsoft software and I don't include a full page of quoted
material for every line of original comment. I hate to scroll through garbage and have started
to get into the habit of just deleting a message if I see nothing but quotations of quotations
of quotations in the first page. I wish people had to type in all quotations manually, then they'd
have to really think about what they were including and if it was necessary. I've thought about
mentioning the worst offenders by name but everybody knows who they are, and sadly not all
are recent members.

   John K Clark jonkc@att.net
PS: If you respond to this post please don't include every damn line of it.
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