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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
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*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