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From: FORSTER@cs.umass.EDU (David Forster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: re: Replying to messages (was the keyboard thing)
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Date: 28 Jun 89 18:11:00 GMT
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grumble  grumble  grumble!

PLEASE!!!  I DON'T LIKE SHOUTING, BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!

I just read a note which contained 60 lines of quoted material compared to 20
lines of new text.  Some messages are even worse, like quoting a long request
with all kinds of particulars, followed by a message like ``me too!!''
Arrrggghhhh!!!
Now the author of ``Replying to messages (was the keyboard thing)'' suggests
using `F' to include quoted text in messages!!  Please, please, please, I don't
like having to wade through all this stuff just to get to some text which may
or may not interest me.  Often it does, so I wade, but I really don't like it.

I don't think I'm alone in this.  (Yes, I know, some of you are going to
suggest I use command <x> on some news software, which I may or may not have.
That's not the point.  The point is that it's wasted bandwidth, and wastes my
time and yours.)  Can people please summarise the quoted text in one line if
the message they're responding to is longer than ten lines or so?  Please?
On the plus side of things, it seems that more people are starting to
summarise more frequently.  Thank you to those who do!

Now I'll get off my soapbox.

David Forster
(forster@cs.umass.edu / forster@umass.bitnet / david%cousteau@cs.umass.edu)