[Sca-cooks] EDIT YOUR MESSAGES, PLEASE!

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Why, yes, i *AM* shouting. On this list for quite some time now I'm 
seeing a multitude of messages with three and four sets of footers 
!!! and long threads of messages that are no longer relevant to the 
answers !!!

There is primarily a small number of people doing this, but doing it 
repeatedly. We all goof once in a while, but this has been 
consistent. Please, take a look at the messages you receive from the 
list and you'll know who you are.

I've been biting my tongue for days, but today was finally the last 
straw for me.

While i enjoy our conversations here, i HATE HATE HATE long strings 
of repeated messages and endless sets of footers. Maybe it's just me 
and my own personal quirk. I moderate an e-mail list and i send back 
messages that don't cut off the footers. Posters soon learn to edit 
their posts.

First, it is considered good netiquette to edit the messages to which 
you are responding. Often messages here cover several topics. If you 
are only responding to one of them, edit out the parts that are not 
relevant to your message. And there is rarely a need to have three 
messages appended to your own new one.

Second, no one needs to see the SCA-Cooks e-mail list's own footer 
more than once per message. Remove the darn things from the messages 
to which you are responding. Seeing them three and four and five 
times, such that they practically fill my screen by themselves, is 
driving me crazy -- and i was already close enough to walk.

Third, cut off the footers attached by web-mail programs and some 
other mail clients. We don't need to see notes from Yahoo and Hotmail 
and other such sources over and over, either. Same goes for messages 
about how the message has been virus checked or the message does not 
express the views of the company. The original sender couldn't help 
having these things appended. You, however, can remove them from your 
responses.

Fourth, if the message to which you are responding has a sig line 
(quotes, cute sayings, ascii art, etc.) remove them unless they are 
relevant to your response, which they rarely are.

We are Cooks. We should know how to cut, cut cut. Hack, hack, hack. 
Slash, slash, slash. Filet, debone, uh, i think i better stop now and 
take a deep breath.

I will now go and hyperventilate at the Rock while sipping on a warm 
soothing beverage.

Anahita