Re: Please Help!

To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
Subject: Re: Please Help!
From: Jukka Aho <Jukka.Aho@NO-EMAIL-HERE.JALASJARVI.FI>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:23:42 GMT
Organization: Black Dragon BBBS
References: <19981025002346.04091.00000964@ng104.aol.com>
Reply-To: Jukka Aho <Jukka.Aho@NO-EMAIL-HERE.JALASJARVI.FI>
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stl137@aol.com (STL137) wrote:

> Why quote unless I specifically refer to something that
> someone else said? Most conversations on USENET degenerate
> into a massive mishmosh of EVERYTHING that people have said
> before, with a little bit tacked on.

You're absolutely right. Unfortunately, it seems that few
people will actually give a slightest thought about how much
easier it is to read well-composed articles with sensible
levels of quoting (instead of mega-quoting all that has
ever been said).

An excellent guideline to proper message writing (including
a fairly good advice on quoting) can be found here:

<http://www.fix.no/info/message_guidelines.html>

This particular guideline is written for BBS use, but
anyone with a common sense can easily adapt almost all
the suggestions to netnews, as well. Well worth reading
for everyone ever considering to write articles in
netnews or BBS's.

 -- znark

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Re: Please Help!

From: STL137 <stl137@AOL.COM>

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