[TR] Replies to List

[Mark Bradakis]

On 1/9/26 1:19 PM, William Smith wrote:
> Listers, Please, please, please refrain from replying to the digest or 
> repeating entire digests in your replies.  Please reply to /include only 
> the the specific thread to which you wish to reply.  Once again the list 
> has become almost impossible to decipher recently.

In my experience, your words of wisdom are falling on deaf ears.  Years 
ago I tried various times to try and get people to edit their replies. 
Back 20 - 30 years ago people had smaller quotas on their mailboxes.  I 
spent a lot of time removing addresses from various lists because the 
mail bounced back because the user was over quota.  Especially AOL 
addresses, they were the worst.  One time I actually did some math and 
found that something like 28% of the email errors I was dealing with 
came from the 8% of list subscribers with .aol addresses.

But all to no avail.  People will not take the time and minimal effort 
to edit their replies.  That's the way it is, and we all have to suffer 
from their laziness or incompetence or whatever reason they don't bother 
editing replies.  Just click the button, who cares about what a mess it 
makes.

mjb, the disgruntled curmudgeon.