Digest Contributors Are Getting Very Sloppy

Jul 10, 2006 0 Replies

Forgive me for making this comment, but I feel I must. Many people when replying to digest articles apparently have no concept of editing. In a recent digest of articles several replies made their reply swell to two or three times the necessary size by replying and including every single bit of the original article and sometimes even beyond that including previous replies! Please have pity on those of us who read this list as a digest. It's a real PITA to try and read the digest only to have to scroll and scroll and scroll to get to information that I haven't already seen. I don't care for people top posting but that's not my beef.



My beef it people who don't trim or edit anything. Please consider editing your replies to only include enough that we know what you're referring to. Get rid of the rest it's just not needed and only junks up the list.



Thank you for your consideration.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A lot of that is really my fault. A rule I used to have here was the quoted amount of the post could not be more than 50 percent of the entire post, and ideally should be a lot less. I do not know why I got away from that, but let's try to implement it again. Make the number of lines in your reply at least be equal to or greater than the amount of the thing you are quoting. Thanks. PAT]

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