SC - Re: [Mid] 16 Things you never tell a cop...

[Karen Lyons-McGann]

Subject: SC - Re: [Mid] 16 Things you never tell a cop...
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leave the rest of the post attatched to my posting as I found it very 
helpful when I was new to the lists, and if you
see my signature, you know I'm done, and you have the rest of the posting 
for quick referrence
.>snip<(SCA-Cook is)  a list which normally posts all of a post in order 
to say "I agree" at the very end. 
phlip at morganco.net
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Does SCA-Cook  embrace this theory, or do some people just do it because 
other people do?  The standard on every other SCA and non SCA lists I've 
been on through the years is that it is rude to keep reposting material 
that everyone on the list has already read.   I've posted here the same 
sort of gentle reminder not to do so that I've seen from time to time on 
most lists when it gets out of hand.  If that was inappropriate, I 
apologize, but I too am ready to go back to just reading Cariodoc's 
Miscellany instead of trying to actively learn from the other cooks.  

I read the list in digest form, and I read it at work. It's a real 
inconvenience to have to scroll past repeating copies of previous 
messages, and a real disappointment that the 2 or 3 digests a day will 
contain so little new information and so much repetitiveness. Sometimes I 
print it out to read on my bus ride home, and more than half the digest 
is unneccesary repetition.  Reading the digest to find useful comments is 
like trying to fix a quick snack in a dirty kitchen, all the piles of 
waste and dirty dishes make it a harder and less enjoyable task than it 
needs to be.  

Including most or all of a previous post is sometimes needed. The active 
translation of the French poem/recipe really needed all the inclusion in 
order to keep up with the various opinions.  Notice though, that that 
series of posts followed the pattern of snipping and responding with 
specific comments and explanations.  Most of the time a minimal reference 
to the previous post such as that is all that is needed.  People can 
rummage through where ever they keep already read messages if they need 
to see the previous in it's entirety, and ask for a public or private 
re-post if they've managed to completely discard it as well as forget the 
gist of it.  Which sometimes does happen if you originally thought you 
weren't interested in a topic.

Anne

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