[Dstar] editing down, meaningful subjects

[Tony Langdon]

At 09:50 AM 10/26/2007, you wrote:
>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.  ;-)

Actually, for those of us on broadband there are still significant 
time savings with well edited messages.  In a lot of cases, the 
useful new content is brief enough to fit on the screen.  If the 
message is edited so that this occurs, then it's quicker to flip 
through a whole pile of emails.  The old posting guidelines from the 
BBS days (when everyone has 300 bps modems) are still valuable today, 
though usually for different reasons.

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