Trim Those Posts and Don't Top Post

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Hi everybody

Patty, your friendly neighborhood moderator, here.

Just a reminder to trim your posts. This means that when you reply to a message,

delete anything in the previous post(s) that isn't absolutely necessary to make

sense of your response. Be merciless - trim away! Sometimes you can even delete

the entire previous post because the subject header says it all.

Also, some folks still haven't got the hang of bottom posting and continue to

top-post. Try to remember to respond to the previous post UNDER it, rather than

ON TOP of it. Makes it easier to follow a thread coherently. Especially if it

has been dutifully edited.

Many of the moderators here, including our own dear list mom, have a lot of

irons in the fire right now and don't have a lot of time to edit your posts.

This means that if you are on moderation status, you may have to wait a while

for your post to show up. But if you can handle the above instructions, we can

take you off of moderation. That makes less work for us and your posts will show

up almost immediately. Win-win!

Thanks to all!

Patty