[TR] Replies to List

[keithstewart at bell.net]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> 
Sent: January 10, 2026 6:00 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Replies to List


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.

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Call us lazy, call us incompetent, but sometimes in our zeal to assist another TR colleague, we just may not notice. None of us intentionally want to tick off our fellow listers. Maybe a kind word to the offender would be more useful in the long run.


Keith Stewart
keithstewart at bell.net
World of Triumph https://keith-stewart.ca/