Repost/ avoiding full length e-mail quotes

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To the list:

I am reposting this, we have added quite a few members since this

was originally sent to the list. Several of us still have e-mail

preferences set to fully quote messages you are replying to. Not using

to reply to: method is also an option, simply send a fresh e-mail and

paste a partial quote (half a dozen lines) of the message you are

responding to " Also, no attachments please, they are not archived by

onelist, so latecomers never get to read them, they are large and eat

up mailbox space fast. We had a half meg attachment sent here, tough

for those who have a 3 meg (total) inbox!! It was not posted.

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The repost:

There is a great deal of useful information in the e-mails, degests of

them and ultimately the archives. Many here may want to save

information. To make that as efficient as possible, we will want to

avoid duplicate information in the form of full quotes of each others

e-mails. We are all new to this list and you are doing a great job.

As we grow, our digests will as well, A list I previously belonged to

eventually had 500 members, some digest versions were actually unable

to be recieved by some whose mailboxes sent out a " full mailbox " message.

Enclosed are some mail management tips:

For those of us who reply to messages by clicking on " re: Mail " , some

e-mail programs are quoting whole strings of e-mail messages, which are

including other reply to's " re: Mails " /replys with full quotes (and

quotes of quotes etc.)

To avoid full quotes of each others e-mails when using your reply to

function:

Netscape Users:

Click on the Options button, in the roll down menu, choose Mail & news

preferences. In the box that appears, go to Composition at the bottom

left (in mine) appears a box if checked it automatically quotes original

messages (in full) when replying, uncheck this box.

Instead of a full requote, simply paste up the first several lines of

the message you are responding to, Also, the easiest way to use you

copy paste functions are as follows. Highlight the text, press the

control key, while holding it down, press c (Control + c) it goes to

your clipboard waiting to be pasted.

To paste the text, simply press control key, while holding it down,

press the v key (Control + v) This is faster than using the edit pull

down since you can just use your keys to complete the copy, paste

functions. Other useful information for Netscape users can be found

at: http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/index.html

Other versions, check here:

http://help.netscape.com/faqs.html and pick your version of Netscape

from the list. Not sure? click Help (on your browser), then " about " to

display your version.

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E-MAIL?

Go to Options on left screen click options, then click preferences, go

to " Forwarding " (by default, do you want to forward messages as

attachments or as quoted inline text?) and click " Forward as inline

text " rather than as attachments, also click " replying " (do you want to

include the original message when replying?) click " don't include

message " Inline text can simply be cropped down to a few pertinent

sentences.

Additionally the opportunity to select ( " inline or as attachment " )for

each individual e-mail exists on each " read message " screen, right after

the forward button, choose inline.

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Other free e-mail services have similiar options and preferences.

Gretchen

List owner

anna_nim@...