Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!cae780!gordon
From: gordon@cae780.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: >'s and disinformation
Message-ID: <3482@cae780.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 15:28:53 EST
Article-I.D.: cae780.3482
Posted: Thu Feb 19 15:28:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 04:19:58 EST
References: <870218233112.027926@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA>
Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
Lines: 25

In article <870218233112.027926@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA> Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney) writes:
>
>  Will everyone PLEASE stop including other people's messages in
>theirs!!  It's getting out of hand.  The most annoying example of this
>	[...]
>  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.

Please don't follow the advice given above.  Not all of us are on ARPA, and
the usenet distribution characteristics make thet strategy useless.

I'm on a backbone site, so I probably get better service than most users.  It
is still not uncommon to get a reply ("Re: xxxx") on Tuesday and the original
on Thursday.  Due to the widely varying distribution times, it is also quite
common to get a reply to a message which passed through weeks ago.  In either
case, without a SMALL amount of quoted material, the reply is useless.

Yes, including too much quoted text is bad, wasteful, distracting, etc.  On
the other hand, so is including too little ...

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc.
UUCP:   tektronix!cae780!gordon [or gordon@cae780.CAE.TEK.COM]