Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: volume of stuff Message-ID: <8903260250.aa09698@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 26 Mar 89 07:46:13 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 >Another reminder on how to keep the volume down (someone has to do this >once every six months or so) -- there is no point whatsoever to >repeating the text of most messages you are responding to -- the whole Gee, I frequently get mail that says stuff like "OK, I will, and I'll let you know" without having the slightest idea what the response is too (I confess I can't recall with certainty what I may have typed into the ether three days ago). Unlike mail back and forth between two people or even a friendly neighborhood BBS, messages on comp.sys.apple=info-apple=INFO-APP don't arrive in order (or even promptly, tonight I got delivery of 20 or so messages from last Saturday and Sunday that some LISTSERV had rolled off to tape or something). We COMMONLY see answers before we see the questions (short replies to long questions are particularly prone to arriving first). So, while I too have complained about repeating ENTIRE messages when only a few lines would be quite sufficient, some repetition is worthwhile, even necessary. Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246