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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Futile flames
Message-ID: <8804270937.aa27629@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 27 Apr 88 14:21:18 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
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>IN A RECENT INFO-APPLE MAILING, TED HOLDEN QUOTES HIS FRIEND:
>
>>              1.   Toy keyboards which look  like  something  you'd expect
          [remainder mercifully deleted, and that's what this is all about]

Even when the original message isn't banal, I really don't need to see
the WHOLE THING repeated ad nauseum!

This is a general plea to PLEASE make general use of your editors ("Gentlemen
start your editors!").

Yes, it makes sense to replicate enough of the previously posted message
so that the reader can follow the new comments, references, and so forth,
but for goodness sake, who needs a repeat of 47 lines of what was BORING
in the first place in order to get the idea?

May I recommend a simple rule-of-thumb?  If the replicated text is longer
than your additional comments, you ARE including too much of the original
and should *DELETE* most of it.

Case in point: do you recall the message referred to in the 3 lines duplicated
above (bet you do)?  Brevity is the soul of wit (said the pot :-).  If you
keep the rehashes short, I'll forgive you for not using a spell checker nor
proof reading (I'm guilty of that too).

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