netiquette

[Malcolm Taran]

Dear everyone

A most courteous gesture is "cut and paste" the most
concise snippets of previous messages--the most essential
threads.

This is most helpful to participation in discussions by
folks like SCN users who have very limited mailbox 
capacity, as well as those who do not read through their
messages every single day.
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The following example is not untypical of a single 
message posted:

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A good example of good style (but not size) is the posting
from Kurt Cockrum <kurt at scn.org> on Tue, 26 Oct 22:24
To: scn at scn.org
Subject: Origin of the "background checks?" thread (big)


Thanks
Malcolm Taran

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