dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) (05/02/85)
This article is posted for Ray Miller. /* ---------- "Hello? Is anybody out there?" ---------- */ This is a test. The last 7 articles I posted (spanning several weeks) never made it off the uiuc campus. If this makes it out, would one of the consistent contributors mind sending me some mail? It would be a shame if I had to get all of my articles posted through Paul. Since I don't know if this will make it out, no use working up some big article or reply. However, at least allow me to suggest that you cut down on the amount of quoted material, i.e., with the > > > The biggest offender has been the replies to Ron Kukuk's postings of Dr. Brown's handout. Everyone can reread the base note if needed; there's no need to copy every line 10 times in 10 replies. I often like to print out the discussion on net.origins. I've recently stopped doing this in an attempt to avoid killing all forests in North America. Any quotes should be brief & to the point. Thanks. A. Ray Miller Univ Illinois /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.origins */ -- | Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois --+-- | "The presence of weeds in the garden is not explained by | saying that the gardener has not pulled them yet."
ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) (05/03/85)
> The biggest offender has been the replies to Ron Kukuk's postings of > Dr. Brown's handout. Everyone can reread the base note if needed; there's no > need to copy every line 10 times in 10 replies. I often like to print out the > discussion on net.origins. I've recently stopped doing this in an attempt to > avoid killing all forests in North America. Any quotes should be brief & to > the point. Thanks. I'm happy to say that I can agree with Ray Miller 100% on something. A hearty AMEN to this.
dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky) (05/03/85)
[] > However, at least allow me to suggest that you cut down on the > amount of quoted material I agree 100% with this suggestion. It seems to me that the purpose of quotes should be to establish that someone actually said something, not to repeat the entire context of a discussion. If you feel that you have to give some context, you can summarize instead of quoting. *Then*, if someone denies having said something, you can bop him or her over the head with the quote. I am sure that people on 300 baud or hard copy terminals don't appreciate having to wade through two screens of quotes to get a four-line comment. Isaac Dimitrovsky