[ic] Lazy posters (Was: Add new fields for the products)

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Wed Aug 20 14:47:32 EDT 2003


Quoting Kevin Walsh (kevin at cursor.biz):
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> How would anyone expected to follow the above mess if they found
> it an a mail list archive search?
> 
> Please follow the interchange-users posting guidelines, which are
> regularly sent to this list:
> 
>   1. Trim unnecessary text from your followups.  Did you really need
>      to quote three sets of links to the listinfo page in your article?
> 
>   2. Post your followup text within some sort of context, i.e:
> 
>              Quoting user1 (<user1 at icdevgroup.org>):
>              > Some limited text that will give context.
>              > 
>              Your reply.
> 
>      instead of:
> 
>              Your reply, lazily put at the top.
> 
>              Quoting user1 (<user1 at icdevgroup.org>):
>              > A whole big blob of previous articles, including
>              > signatures and all.
> 
> You'll find that, if you post properly, then more people will read
> your articles and you may even get more responses.  I stop following
> threads when people top-post their followups - even if the followup
> is in response to one of my articles.  I know lots of others who do
> the same.
> 

Hear hear. My time is valuable, to myself if no one else. I will not
spend it trying to figure out the posts of people too lazy to do
things properly.

Most people who use MS Outlook or some other similarly-crippled
mail agent end up doing this, partly because their software makes
it so hard to do things properly.

My advice to these people is to learn some editor well, any editor,
then get a mail client that invokes *your* editor to edit the mail
message instead of using some brain-dead internal editor like Notepad.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.513.523.7621      <mike at perusion.com>

Software axiom: Lack of speed kills.


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