trimming posts

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

I see a lot of discussions going on about trimming posts. I

will be the first to admit I am extremely lazy when it comes to this and I just

hit reply, so guilty as charged! J

If any of you have a simple, concise explanation of the

correct way to trim and reference previous posts, can you send it to me and I

will post it (giving credit to you, of course)? I will also set it up in the

Files section. That way we can end this discussion and educate everyone,

including me, on the proper protocol.

I have a file in the Files section about trimming posts, but

it says if you need more details to contact me, well, that would be really

helpful, no? So you experienced Yahoo Group people, I would be very grateful

for the help so we can get back to talking about IE and also stop driving our

digest people crazy! J

Thanks everybody!

Thanks!

Gillian

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[Guest guest]

One of my other lists has a very strict policy about trimming posts. If someone

doesn't,

the mods do it and there appears a note at the top of the post saying something

like

'excessive quote trimmed by moderator' or something like that AND you get a auto

reply

alerting you to your 'infraction'. Even though I've been on this list about five

years, I still

occasionally forget. I have been known to realise afterwards, then delete my

original, and

repost a correctly trimmed version I just hate getting those reminder notes

<blush>

They are good mods though. I " m on another list that gets off topic like you

would not

believe. It can go for weeks with masses of posts, but hardly a single one on

topic. That

never happens on this list and it's always easy to read and find things because

they keep it

so organised and the posts nicely trimmed.

This is a pretty fair representation of what I do. Just leave a sentence or two

to show what I

am replying to and who wrote it, so it's not mixed up with my words and no one

has to

search around to figure out what the heck I " m replying to.

> I see a lot of discussions going on about trimming posts. I will be the

> first to admit I am extremely lazy when it comes to this and I just hit

> reply, so guilty as charged! :-)

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