if we're voting, I'd agree with Aaron.
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Hoyt [mailto:
aaron.hoyt@...]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:08 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] ATTN: Moderator
Mark/Bruce,
I don't want to start anything, but adding my text below the message is not
helpful for me. Then I have several messages in my "vantage" box that all
start exactly the same way. I group my messages by conversation (or
subject) and can read all the responses quickly without having to go over
the initial question again...(that is at the bottom of the list of several
messages sorted).
I like the current format better than any other list I am a part of, and
would really like to keep it the way that it is.
The message below reads nice if it's the only message you are interested in,
but if you just read the question, why would you want to have to read that
again to get to the answer? Besides the header information no longer
indicates who you are quoting, making it more difficult to make quick sense
of what you are reading. Granted, this may not be the case for Digest mode,
I wouldn't know because I find in order for me to be a valuable resource to
the group I need to be able to read and respond quickly so Digest mode would
not work for me anyway.
My recommendation would be to change off Digest mode and use a rule to move
the Vantage messages to a separate folder and then group by conversation and
sort by received. Then you can check in on threads as you like and leave
the rest alone or even delete them as a group.
As for editing the original message, I do believe that we could all use a
reminder to not double up the junk at the end every message now and again.
I am sure I am one of the guiltiest parties in leaving the Yahoo crap at the
end because I never read that far into a message.
My $.02
Aaron Hoyt
Vantage Plastics
-----Original Message-----
From:
vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Mark Wonsil
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:30 AM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] ATTN: Moderator
> I believe this is out of your control, but..... It would be really cool
> if users like me could get the "Digest" hyperlinked in order to jump
> around the digest to the topics that concern us. There is a lot of
> annoying Yahoo garbage that gets tagged on the bottom t the end of the
> messages that makes even scrolling time consuming.
The one thing that posters can do is to trim the messages before they send
them and add the responses below the text. Here are some guidelines
suggested by others:
Here's what the really smart people at Harvard suggest:
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/wjh/newsgrp.shtml
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http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/wjh/newsgrp.shtml>
Here's Google's suggestions:
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_style.html
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http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_style.html>
Here's a tutorial from "Dan":
http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html
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http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html>
Mark W.
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