FROM THE LIST-OWNER - An Important Rule Reminder!

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No, this has nothing to do with insults, personal attacks or topic tagging.

It has everything, however, to do with etiquette.

Without getting into the debate over top-posting and bottom-posting

(that can wait for the future/past, as it's been covered before and

will be covered again) I must remind all of you that pruning your

posts of extraneous backquoted material is both a list requirement

and a matter of basic courtesy. Having to wade through masses of

unnecessary backquoting, particularly of sig lines, HTML footers,

advertisements and whatnot, makes reading messages unpleasant

and difficult. All that's required is enough context to understand your reply.

Some people like to leave email headers in their replies to make it

clear whom they're replying to, but this too is frowned

upon. Backquoted headers are just as wasteful and ugly as any other

unnecessary clutter, and all that's necessary for identification is

either a polite salutation (e.g. opening an email with " , " ) or an

automated identifying line inserted by an email client (such as " On

1/8/2006 Idol wrote: " ).

Please take the vanishingly brief moments necessary to delete such

extraneous material from your messages before hitting the 'post' or

'reply' button.

Thank you for helping to make this list a friendlier and more readable place,

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