[Sca-cooks] List Etiquette?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> On every list that I own, moderate or belong to, the standard
> list protocol
> courtesy is that a person shorten the original reply by
> cutting/pasting
> [snipping] *only* the relevant portion they are responding
> to, and NOT leav=
> e
> the entire original message or digest.
>
> Does this courtesy etiquette apply to this list?  If not, why?
>
> Giovanna
>

Trimming posts is considered proper etiquette on this list.  The choice on
how much to trim is in the hands of the respondent and a number of
participants leave the entire text of the message to which they are
responding.  Others of us clip the pertinent passages from the posts to
which we are responding to save further verbosity.  As I subscribe to both
the digest and individual list (different locations), I can tell you that
people who do not get the digest don't understand what verbosity does to the
readablitiy of the digest.

However, in responding to the digest, errors do happen and at times people
new to the list do not think to clip just the message from the digest.
Every so often there is a campaign to refresh memories and reduce the volume
of repetition on this list.  Please remember this is a high volume list with
steady turnover in participants, so not everyone will know the rules of the
list.

In today's case, I believe sending the full digest was caused by some
computer problems.  Morgan Cain has apologized.

Other proper etiquette on this list:

Change headers to match the subject.
Use OT in the header for stuff that is not about cooking.
Use OOP in the header for stuff that is out of period.
Use them together if appropriate.
Recipes and documentation are always in order, even if OOP.
If you wouldn't say it in Gunthar's living room, don't say it here.  This IS
Gunthar's living room.

Bear