RE: [DL] Becoming blessed.

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@poboxes.com>]

I was going to consider myself properly chastised, endeavor to not repeat my
mistake, and not contribute to digest-bloating thread continuance.  But I
won't keep quiet while being vilified (Gawd that's an awful word, but my
brain is in ten-cent word mode from proofing license agreements).

First, while you can't control what your company adds to your e-mail, you
are responsible for it showing up on the list.  You can either not post from
work, or accept the fact that your .sig is effectively 20+ lines long, since
that's the .sig that we all see.  My work .sig is pretty gnarly too, but I
specifically avoid using it because, well, I have that option, and the list
doesn't need to see it.  You may not have that option, most people don't, so
even when I was a digest subscriber work-related .sigs didn't bother me.

Second, I did not include the entire thread out of "pure laziness."  My mail
window happened to display just the upper lines of the message I was
responding to.  I didn't notice the scroll bar, and mistakenly included
unnecessary text.  Having just recently switched from digest-mode of the
list, I understand the issues involved.  Having participated in threads on
other lists, newsgroups, messageboards, etc, I understand the reasons and
benefits of snipping some text out.  Again, having just switched from digest
mode, I made a simple mistake born of lack of recent practice.  Not of
laziness.

If you wish to continue to harangue me, please do it via private e-mail so I
can "close and delete the message."  Like you say, digest subscribers don't
have that ability.  And I apologize to anyone that feels this exchange
should have been taken to private e-mail starting with this message.

Jeff "Trying hard to express myself without a flame" Y.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Leybourne, Brian - CLM
>
>
> > > PLEASE, a little common courtesy for your fellow
> > > listers (especially we digesters)
> >
> > It could be worse, their sig could be longer than
> > their post :)
>
> No, my .sig is exactly 8 lines long. As for confidentiality notices my
> company may attach to my message, well, I have no control over that.
>
> And yes, I do feel there is a difference anyway. There is no
> reason to quote
> an entire message, you should snip it and only responding to the specific
> thing being quoted. It's bad enough when someone quotes an entire message
> then responds at the bottom, but it's even worse (IMO) when
> someone replies
> to a message, and then through pure laziness leaves the entire
> message (the
> entire message THREAD, in this case) attached to the bottom of
> the message.
> OK, regular readers can simply close and delete the message, but digest
> subscribers don't have that ability.
>
> Plus, it's mentioned in the listserv rules, and for a good reason.
> Specifically, the one I just outlined.
>