I would like to remind everyone about two important rules to
follow
when taking part in a mailing list:
1. Cut down quoted text as much as possible. This is
includes
signatures, the lines added to the bottom of every RARA-AVIS
message,
and everything else that is not strictly relevant to your
message. It
is wasteful and annoying to include reams of needlessly
quoted text in
a message.
2. Format your messages so that they fit the 80-character
line.
E-mail messages should be designed so that no line has more
than 80
characters - in fact, 72 or so is a good number to try for.
It is
especially important that this be checked when pulling in
text from
another source, for example a web page, because the
formatting there
is usually pretty odd.
If everyone follows these two long-established e-mail
guidelines, the
list will function much better.
Thanks,
Bill
--
William Denton | Toronto, Canada | http://www.vex.net/~buff/ | Caveat lector.
"It is better to incur a mild rebuke than to perform an onerous task."
-- "Uncle" Oswald Hendryks Cornelius
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