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From: Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: >'s and disinformation
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 18:31:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 18:31:00 1987
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  Perhaps I'm not the one to be saying this, but someone should and I've
been sitting here quitely all this time waiting for someone to speak up.
  Will everyone PLEASE stop including other people's messages in
theirs!!  It's getting out of hand.  The most annoying example of this
is the recent flood of quoted messages about the ST's rf modulator.  It
seems that there are always a select group of people who have to correct
every little thing that someone who obviously doesn't know what he's
talking about says.  The cool thing to do in that situation is what 95%
of this digest mailing list did.
          IGNORE IT.
    Back to why I wrote this message:  those annoying >'s in front of
text from messages I just read 1 1/2 minutes ago.  If you noticed, the
welcome message says not to do that.  Two slaps on the wrist for all who
did.  (Four for those who broke the sentence which follows the one that
says not to quote long passages and says not to quote long passages from
somone else who quoted a long passage.  (got that))
  What I'm floundering around trying to say is that I'm following this
group rather intently, and if someone references a message, I'll
probably know what it refers to.  If not, I'll look in the previous
messages.  If I still can't find it, and I'm interested, I'll send
PRIVATE mail.
  If I'm not following the messages closely however, the previous
references aren't going to help me anyway, and they certainly are
annoying.
    Thanks,
             rodney
      rodp@radc-multics.arpa