inquiry on increased posts

Stephanie Teeter (step@starfish.fsr.com)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:38:37 -0800

Here's a suggestion made by a ridecamp subscriber - a
good one, and would certainly help ease the list load.
Most of the posts that people make do need context, but
editing and/or paraphrasing might do the job.

Steph

>other lists I'm on, people seem to include (and reinclude)
>previous posts in their messages, a lot. This is really redundant and
>certainly ups the amount of incoming mail. It is not hard
>to paraphrase the message or thought that you are responding
>to. Perhaps a suggestion to people to stop including prior
>posts in their own message would help address the problem.