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Subject:Re: Info Overload From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:00:22 -0600
Richard Farley wrote:
>
> Tracy Boyington brings up a good point about the size of the digest.
> Perhaps it would help if we all refered to the original message without
> including the original message and all related messages in our replies.
Actually, that's not what I said. I always thought it was good
netiquette to include *relevant* parts of the post you're replying to.
This post wouldn't have made much sense if I hadn't quoted yours. ;-)
But leaving stacks of signatures, including multiple copies of Eric's
handy dandy instructional tag, calls for severe punishment.
