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NZC Re: trimming long posts



On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Steve Thomson wrote:

Good point. Another thing that would be really helpful for identifying discussion threads is if people could change the title when clicking Reply to

mr553821 wrote:
Just a friendly reminder, when replying to posts,
especially long posts, you do not have to include the
whole post.  You can copy and paste just the pertinent
parts.  Some of the recent digests required a lot of
scrolling.  Thanks

Both of you are right.....these are both things that are considered proper "netique". Including some of the message in a reply makes sense, including all of it does not, because we already read the whole post. And Subject lines are important....I know speaking for myself, I am less apt to read a post with the subject unchanged from "Zeppelin Digest" but if I know what it is, I will definately read it if it is a topic that interests me!

I think I might have addressed this in the survey summary that I have yet to post, but I appreciate it being brought up.

Jeremy

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