A migration of the YDL lists to forums: 2004 08/03

[Stephen Harker]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:47:18AM -0700, Harold Shanafield wrote:
>  This way I and like minded subscribers wouldn't have
> to read through 200 lines of 
> >
[...]
> > 
> to get to a one sentence reply.  [...]

In mailing lists (and newsgroups) this is due to people ignoring the
old usenet conventions of quoting only enough for context.  As a
result the message becomes full of extraneous rubbish that serves no
useful purpose.

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Stephen Harker                           Stephen.Harker@spme.monash.edu.au
School of Physics & Materials Engineering
Monash University                       http://www.ph.adfa.edu.au/s-harker/
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