Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Please limit quoting in replies to Cohousing-L

[Kathleen Lowry (kathleenlowrylpcclmft]

Super helpful Fred. Thanks! 

> On Sep 1, 2022, at 8:03 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Cohousing-L subscribers,
> 
> At the conference I received comments about the excessive quoting
> on Cohousing-L.  This is especially problematic for digest subscribers
> (most subscribers) who have to scroll past the bottom quoting to get
> to the next message in the digest. (see helpful suggestion below)
> 
> Please delete most of quoted material from replies that is not needed
> to provide context for your reply.  If readers need more context they
> can check the archives: http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-L/
> 
> I also got a number of expressions of appreciation of Cohousing-L.
> If you appreciate Cohousing-L, please show it by limiting the quoting
> in replies. Note that your reply will be more likely to be distributed
> immediately (ie not held for review - see below)
> 
> I plan to repost more messages after deleting excessive quoting. Such
> messages are sometimes held for review because the quoting makes them
> exceed the 12K byte limit for posting (without review). This is in
> addition to quoted digests.
> 
> 
> ** GETTING PAST EXCESSIVE QUOTES IN DIGESTS
> (That is, getting to the next message in a digest.)
> 
> There is a work around for digest subscribers to get to the next
> message in the digest and skip the rest of the current message:
> 
> Search in the digest for "Message:" or even "age:" (without quotes) to
> find the beginning of the next (numbered) message. Most excessive
> quotes are at the end of messages, when you've read as much as you
> desire of a message, search for the next message (often you can repeat
> the search). For more details see: http://justcomm.org/jc-faq.htm#Q8.6
> 
> Fred Olson, Cohousing-L admin team.  cohousing-l-owner [at] cohousing.org
> (Fred: 612-588-9532)
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