[Idyllchat] RE: IdyllChat Digest, Vol 11, Issue 11

[Jerry Clancy]

Mary,

For those of you that subscribe to the Digest form of Idyllchat, 
rather than message-by-message (as, I think, most do), you have to 
remember two things when responding:

Firstly, unless you change it, the Subject of the email will read, as 
yours does, "RE: IdyllChat Digest, Vol 11, Issue 11". In the 
single-message form it would be the subject of the message to which 
you are responding. So, in the Digest case, no one knows what you are 
responding about.

Secondly, the ENTIRE Digest issue gets copied into your response 
making it more or less impossible to identify where your actual 
response is. I never did find it in your last post.

Even in the single-message form it is often good etiquette to 
(highlight with the mouse and) cut out all but the relevant portion 
of the message to which you are responding (and particularly all the 
links at the bottom), unless the prior message is fairly short. If 
you don't cut out the links they multiply like rabbits with every 
subsequent response.

Please don't take this as scolding because it is most certainly not 
meant that way. Often people don't realize what happens when you 
click Reply. For those of us who deal with 400-500 messages a day in 
professional forums, doing these things is almost instinctive now, 
but it isn't for a lot of folks.

What you have to say is important. Just make sure folks can find it.

Happy weekend to all.

Jerry


At 05:05 PM 6/15/2007, you wrote:

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