I've actually found that including all of the previous message in the responses saves space and time. I can archive one message that has the entire conversation in it. This is much easier than sorting through messages to find the answer to a question asked earlier. Try it...you'll like it...it'll make you feeeeel good!!! Did I mention it's Friday? > ---------- > From: Abdulrahman Lomax[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum.;Abdulrahman Lomax > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 3:19 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [DC] Mailing list courtesy > > I am of those who think that informal communication, the little notes > we > pass back and forth, shmoozing, as it were, are of great value for > building > a community. I was reminded of this today when one of us managed to > wedge > her foot firmly in her mouth; well, not so firmly, since she > immediately > noticed and acknowledged her error! Would that it was always so easy! > > However, it would be a courtesy to the list to delete anything > unessential > from the original messages when replying with quotation. It only takes > a > moment. > > I do archive this list, as I do all lists in which I participate, the > wheat > and the chaff, and multiple repetitions of the DesignerCouncil mailing > list > boilerplate at the end of each post is something like the very > definition > of chaff. > > I thank you and my hard drive and phone line thank you and I am sure > many > others will as well. > > [log in to unmask] > Abdulrahman Lomax > P.O. Box 423 > Sonoma, CA 95476 > > ################################################################ > DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using > LISTSERV 1.8c > ################################################################ > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with > following text in the body: > To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> > To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil > ################################################################ > Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" > section for additional information. > For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.312 > ################################################################ > ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################