Geo. Bergeron wrote: > > Well. . . I copy the paddlewise address, click the "reply" button, > add the paddlewise address and delete the sender/poster address. Sometimes I > polish up the subject line. Then I cobble together a text from what's been > posted and how I want to respond to it. Of late, I'm discovering that the > "select all" and "delete" button work well. . . > > Of course "new message" might work better. . . I may go down in > flames on this one, but I think "bandwidth" is not so much an issue online > as it is in something like broadcasting. I have a hard time believing that > paring a few lines from my post is going to make much of an impact when > compared to SPAM and the extensive network documentation stuff that flies > about. [snip] For me, the paring increases my likelihood of reading somebody's reply on PW. If someone went to the trouble to edit and craft their response to address the sense of the original message, I feel like they have made an effort to be part of the dialog. My pet peeve is people who have a two word, usually flippant reply, and paste in several repeated messages. Sure, it takes another 10 - 20 seconds to do, but I think that's the idea behind one of these lists. I suspect people "listen" to a posting better if it seems the poster made an effort to get his/her point across. So I like it when people do what George describes in the top paragraph. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 12 1998 - 12:00:01 PST
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