Message to the Group

[Guest guest]

Hi All - Especially the Newcomers

Lately quite a number of people are not making the effort to

consistently tidy up their replies before they send them to the list.

This means that we volunteer moderators have to do double duty before a

post ever makes it to the group.

If each person takes the time to clean up their own replies, then a

volunteer won't have to spend hours each week, making sure that the

people who read this list, won't be wading through tons of repeated

stuff and triple Yahoo tack ons.

Regardless of what email program you use or whether you use web based

email - when you hit the Reply button, the nice clean area where you get

to type your new post shows up on your computer screens. The previous

poster's message shows up too and also all that gobbledygook that Yahoo

adds to many of the messages.

If you just type your reply and hit the send button, then your post,

plus all of the previous post, plus all the old Yahoo junk, plus new

Yahoo junk, gets sent to the list.

So please, after you hit the reply button and BEFORE you type your

pearls of wisdom, please take a few seconds to delete all the stuff that

doesn't need to be sent back with the replies. Usually that consists of

most of the last person's email note and all of the Yahoo tack on junk.

If you clean up the post BEFORE you start typing your reply, you won't

forget to do it!

All you need left from the old reply is So and So wrote: and a few lines

or a paragraph of what they wrote. You do not need to send back the

whole post.

If messages aren't cleaned up by anyone, then the Digest readers, the

readers with vision impairments, and the web based readers would have a

very discouraging time trying to dig through the mess to find and read

the new messages.

None of the moderators like to reject or delete messages, but at the

same time, we really don't like having to clean up other people's

replies. It only takes a few seconds to clean up your responses

while typing them and it saves others a lot of hassle.

Thank you in advance from our group's four moderators.

Lyndi

Moderator

P.S. If you're a computer newbie and don't really understand what I'm

asking of you, please let us know and we will all walk you through

learning how to delete. It isn't difficult and once you've

done it a few times, it becomes a habit.

[Guest guest]

Re: Message to the group

Is this the right way to do it? Thanks, Lois

[Guest guest]

Lyndi wrote please clean up posts

Lyndi you said you would walk us newbies through it. I need your help to learn

it.Dont want to make work for anyone.

Thanks Viv in CONNECTICUT

[Guest guest]

I have asked on every group i am on on how to do this on i phone....can someone

tell me how?

thanks

 Debra

>Lyndi wrote:

>Regardless of what email program you use or whether you use web based

email - when you hit the Reply button, the nice clean area where you get to type

your new post shows up on your computer screens.  The previous poster's message

shows up too and also all that gobbledygook that Yahoo adds to many of the

messages.

[Guest guest]

Debra wrote:

> I have asked on every group i am on on how to do this on i phone -can someone

tell me how?

You should just to have to tap as you do other functions. If you go to You Tube

and type in E mail on I phone, they

have step by step tutorials. Hope that helps. Bennie

[Guest guest]

Thanks Bennie this is the first response I have gotten.

Hugs

Bennie

>bennie@... wrote:

>You should just to have to tap as you do other functions. If you go to You

Tube and type in E mail on I phone, they have step by step tutorials. Hope that

helps.