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Re: [SLE] Post Nazis (WAS: Re: [SLE] Software Updates)
  • From: "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:43:24 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200608212243.09933.fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 19 August 2006 6:47 am, M. Fioretti wrote:

[snip]

> On a high traffic mailing list "form over content" is essential for
> ACTUAL EFFICIENCY. If posts are always properly titled, trimmed as
> much as possible, bottom posted, threads not hijacked, OT threads
> asked to stop immediately etc....  both learning (even from the
> archives) and giving help become much EASIER and FASTER. That's it,
> whether you like it or not.

[snip]

Quite right!! I don't have time to read all the mail that comes in daily when
a thread isn't easy to follow, that is someone posts at the top and fouls it
all up. Mail not properly posted gets ignored......I don't have time for it.
It's really a matter of common sense.

Fred

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