[time-nuts] Administrivia: Trimming Quoted Messages

[John Miles]

I have been tempted to call out one fellow in particular about that, but his
replies are always so interesting and informative that I can't bring myself
to do it. :-)

-- john, KE5FX

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Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:58 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: [time-nuts] Administrivia: Trimming Quoted Messages


Hi Folks --

We often have long threads here on time-nuts with multiple layers of
reply and counter-reply.  They make great reading, but particularly when
posters reply at the bottom of the message, it can become hard to scroll
through to find the new material.  We have a thread now where there are
some 200 lines of quoted text before there's any new content.

When you reply to messages, please consider trimming out material that's
not necessary to create context for the reply; very often the earlier
parts are no longer relevant to the matter that's the subject of the
reply.  That will help keep messages shorter and easier to read.