Date:         Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:53:02 -0700
Reply-To:     Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: ADMINISTRIVIA - Please trim your replies
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <m1prjnn6nk.fsf@cs.indiana.edu>
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I have been on the vintage bus list for years, & you cannot even send
a reply to an email w/ out significantly stripping it.  It will get
automatically rejected, sometimes even if the original email is only a
couple of sentences long.

That forum used to get as much traffic as the vanagon list. but now is
almost completely devoid of traffic since the samba forums.

Could be coincidence or too difficult to respond?

YMMV,

Mr. Bz-ditto on all the jim positve feedback





On Dec 19, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Allan Streib wrote:

> Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> writes:
>
>> I've been off list for a few days and since the posts are trimmed I
>> don't what's happening really.
>
> I think the gist of the request was not to entirely strip out the
> prior
> message, but only include the context or part you are responding to
> (which is USUALLY not the entire message and even less likely part of
> someone else's earlier response).
>
> This is classic USENET "netiquette" but it dates to the days when
> people
> read messages on 80x24 character screens, on devices that had no local
> storage, and had 300 - 9600 baud connection speeds.  Hardly relevant
> today, but some people still use dial-up, or other low bandwith, and
> many still consider it standard courtesy.
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL