Dear Colleagues,
Here are a few tips for making your contributions to the
list more readable:
- Trim, trim, trim! Unnecessary repetitions of previous
posts, list
footers, and signature lines are tedious for other members
to
negotiate. If you're replying to a previous message, please
trim away
everything but the essentials of that message and your
response to it.
If you don't trim your post down, and I think that it would
benefit
from trimming, then I edit it myself. This means extra work
for me,
and a trim job that you as the author may deem unduly harsh.
- Double-check your subject line, and make sure that it
summarizes the
topic. If you subscribe to the digest format of the list,
then the
subject line will automatically be something like
"Digest Number 123."
Please change it to something more topical.
- Please set your out-of-office auto-response so that it
does not
reply to every post on this list. I usually trim these away
before all
the other list members have to see them, but sometimes they
slip
though.
Thanks for your attention to these tips. I'm sure that you
will find
that using them is in your best interests, since if you
consistently
post your remarks in a way that is easy to read, then your
urgent
queries are more likely to inspire helpful responses.
Many thanks and best regards from Deborah
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Information Systems Forum list administrator
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