Dear LM_NET Colleagues,
Stacy's message was so well stated that I simply want to add that your
moderator asks that we all pay close attention to the structure of our
replies, to be certain that they are as succinct as possible. Thank you.
Peter Milbury, LM_NET Co-Moderator pmilbury@iis.syr.edu
School Librarian/CA TeleMentor, Chico HS, Chico, CA
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Stacy L.A. Bugden wrote:
> Could people please, kindly, remember to EDIT posts--especially when
> replying to a digest? I just received 2 digests half of one which was merely
> the body of several emails replied to, back and forth, and the other was a
> couple posts, with one reply that included an entire digest message. Yes, I
> do realise that mistakes happen--the reply button gets clicked before we
> mean it to, etc. But many people just don't think (okay, this is what I
> choose to believe, I'm hoping it's not that people actually don't care).
>
> It may not matter to those of you on individual emails but for those on
> digest we have to scroll through ALL the garbage to get to the next emails.
> This issue has been brought up before but, obviously, some people still
> refuse to consider others. Imagine if you received an email and all the
> important info was below a bunch of repeated stuff and you had to scroll
> through it to get to what you wanted to read.
>
> Please, if you're replying to an email, just quote the relevant parts you're
> replying to, not the entire message with all the LM-NET footers and sigs and
> such. This is just common netiquette and therefore, I don't think it's
> really too much to ask of people.
>
> I know I've complained about this before and I'm sorry for harping on it
> again but it's so frustrating that people continue to be so inconsiderate.
> It takes less time for you to delete unneeded information than it does for
> me to scroll through it.
>
> Later
>
> Stacy
>
> Stacy L.A. Bugden
> Library Technician
> Champlain Elementary School
> Granville Ferry, NS
> libces@staff.ednet.ns.ca
>
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