netiquette

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

> > > > >Huh?!?
  LOL Sorry man, couldn't resist
Chris

 On 8/16/05, Mark Langford <markl@hiwaay.net> wrote: 
> 
> This is a great list, and I really enjoy the flow of Scirocco information,
> and the personalities involved. But I have to comment on one thing that
> would really make it a lot better for everybody, especially us "digesters"
> and folks searching the archives for those gold nuggets of information 
> that
> help us to keep our Sciroccos on the road. You guys are the world's worst
> at spending any effort at all on making it an easy list to read. When you
> see stuff like:
> 
> > > > > > > so I was shot when I hit the pillow last night.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I usually don't dream or at least remember my dreams, but this
> 
> ..it's obvious that a whole bunch of people don't bother to delete the 
> tens
> (or hundreds) of lines of useless text quoted below a message. What this
> does is expand the filesize of the digest to the point that it mails out
> with only 6 or 7 messages in it, every few hours, rather than once a day
> with 50 so once a day. This is something like rule number one on Usenet
> lists. Many one line messages carry around 75-100 lines of baggage that do
> nothing but make the digest a real pain to read, as well as clog the 
> archive
> with duplicate hits that make searching the archive a truly painful 
> affair.
> And it fills even the "regular's" email boxes in a hurry.
> 
> Getting off topic is a whole 'nuther matter, but that's just the way this
> list is, and I can accept that. You guys are all buddies, like I am on the
> two lists that I run, www.krnet.org <http://www.krnet.org> , devoted to 
> homebuilt airplanes, and
> one devoted to Corvair engines converted for aircraft use. But we still 
> try
> to keep the extraneous stuff to a minimum, and the result is an 
> easy-to-read
> list that efficiently gets the information out there for everybody to find 
> .
> Please make some kind of effort to keep the baggage to a minimum. It'll
> make life easier for everybody involved. A few seconds of cutting and
> pasting can save hundreds of people several seconds of checking the 
> message
> for tidbits that aren't there.
> 
> Sorry for smelling up the place, but I feel like a little cooperation 
> would
> make it far more likely that more participants would be active in the list
> if it weren't so painful...
> 
> Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
> '74 2110cc Karmann Ghia (bought it new!)
> '87 16V 2.0 Scirocco
> '99 A4 Avant Quattro
> '01 GTI w/APR chip
> 3100cc Corvair powered homebuilt airplane (
> http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford )
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