For the last month or so I have continuously been several days to a week
behind on my oletruck digests, and in my hurry to catch up noticed that I
have been spending an inordinant amount of time scrolling, scrolling,
scrolling. The plain fact is that the vast majority of the lines of each
digest are just thoughtlessly repeated copies of previous posts.
A lot of us have set our email system to repeat the entire previous post
to which we are replying when we reply to an email. So we get something like:
Yeah, right! (our contribution)
On February 32 2001 Harold Snotlocker <tkyut@iyug.com> wrote:
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oejvqojrvqoejveqojvqoejvqoejvrwdichj followed by 10 lines of copy>
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<<<<<<< and on and on and on >>>>>>>>>>>
Well, you get the idea. A line or two of reply is accompanyied by 70, 80
even 100 lines of useless dross. Some posts require more time to scroll
through searching for new content than they require to read, and undoubtedly
a few posts get lost in the acres of needless quotes.
I would like to gently suggest that we quote only the relevant portion of
a previous post to which we are replying. This should be a very simple
setting change in the email software and would sure help those of us with
limited time keep abreast of the discussion. A typical example:
Harold Snotlocker wrote:
<All Fords are made on Mars of Swiss cheese which is why they are so hard to
weld on Tuesday and why they smell so bad when left standing in the sun for
several days>
Anybody could see that that this post demands a reply as it is common
knowledge that Fords are made of Gouda, not Swiss cheese. But there is
another part of Harolds post that you wish to address:
<Last night my dog Rex drove me home from the pub in my oletruck and I
noticed a shimmy in the front end when he turned left and drove over a
railroad track . . .>
You have, of course, spotted the problem with Harold's chrome muffler
bearing and can let him know about it PDQ, without wasting "excessive
bandwidth" or wearing out the scroll button by just repeating the interesting
bit and letting the rest go.
Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com
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