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Subject:to digest or not to digest From:"Kahn, Stacey" <skahn -at- WB -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:50:20 U
Okay, so it's good netiquette to quote or summarize selected portions of
text--particularly if you're responding to a specific statement or question.
OTOH, IMO, a post like this one, which merely *adds* to a thread without
directly responding to any particular item, doesn't seem to call for quoting.
What *really* gets me is the messages that include the however- many-line
message header as part of the quoted text. That's lazy and inconsiderate. If
someone has the time to respond to a post, they have the time to delete the
header. I don't buy the "but that's how my email package defaults" excuse.
[Hmmm... someone..they? Yuck. But it's Friday.]
--Stacey Kahn Washington, DC
SKahn -at- wb -dot- com
speaking for myself and not for my employers
