[Dstar] editing down, meaningful subjects

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:53:03PM +1000, Mark Aitken wrote:
> Has anyone ever heard of editing replies prior to sending???

Mark makes a valid point.  When you join a mailing list, it helps to
follow some stricter techniques, which are easy to learn.  Because
messages are broadcast, there is a high return on investment in brevity.
It reduces the cost of being on the list.  Not all hams can afford high
speed broadband services.  They might be reading this on D-STAR.  ;-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style for more in-depth
analysis.

Perhaps the WIA news item could have been referred to originally rather
than forwarded in full.  Not worth worrying about unless it happens
often.

Also, when replying to a digest, try to change the subject line
back to what it was inside the digest.  Some mail programs can split out
the digest and let you reply to a single message ... but they are rare.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html is a useful article that shows
how to choose a meaningful subject line for new messages.

I liked this chunk of text from the Wikipedia article ...

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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