Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Ladies and Gentlewombats, a little reminder Message-ID: <689@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 14:27:24 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.689 Posted: Mon Feb 20 14:27:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 01:52:49 EST References: <688@nsc.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 29 *sigh* I forgot a couple in my previous reminder... $+1) When you summarize to the net, SUMMARIZE! Don't simply post a list of all of the messages you got. In that case, it is much better just to let them post them themselves! At the VERY LEAST, remove the stupid mail headers from the messages, which will cut the size of your posting in about half. $+2) When you include a message in a followup, edit the stupid thing! First, remove the header. Second, if you forget to remove the header, remove the header. Then, instead of publishing the entire article you are following up on, please edit the thing and only leave in those comments that you are responding to. That way we have some idea what you are talking about. If you need to include >~10 lines, don't bother, simply refer them to the original (we can fairly safely assume they have it) preferably by poster (ex: nsc!chuqui or Chuq at nsc or something fairly uniq and identifiable) and article-id (as in <688@nsc.UUCP, which will also be in your References: line if you are running decent software). Finally, if you forgot to remove the header of the included message, remove the bloody header! (exiting vision: small, furry bear with small wisps of plaid smoke issuing from ears...) -- From the house at Pooh Corner: Chuq 'Nuke Wobegon' Von Rospach {fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui Have you hugged your Pooh today? What's it feel like to have not done it for 200 years? 204, if you count my marriage... --- woody allen, sleeper