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Message ID: 19032
Date: Sat May 27 03:18:00 BST 2000
Author: jay schultze
Subject: Re: [eqbards] New patch message


Oh yeah, I forgot to mention digests. They can get pretty large. All of you
people on mailing lists, do everyone a favor and SNIP your shit. Unless you
are a friggin quadriplegic, it's not hard to do and takes no time at all.

Thanks for mentioning this guys for the clueless netizens out there that are
newbies to netiquette (god I hate buzzwords, hehe).

Sart-


>From: Harmonie Moonsong <harmoniemoonsong@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@egroups.com
>To: eqbards@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] New patch message
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 18:00:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I dont know about anyone else... but... I used to
>subcsribe to the digest, and boy do those get
>long. It was not uncommon for it to be 40 or 50
>pages and there are four or five a day. Well over
>half of that content is duplicates or the advertising
>at the bottom or each post. This gets really old
>reading fast. Either I would print them out so I
>could easily see where the true content was easily, or
>I would just endlessly hit page down and miss a post
>every now and then. It is simple courtesy to clip the
>extra off. I for one wish everyone would take the
>time to do it.
>

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