Guest guest Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Lately quite a number of people are not making any effort to clean up their replies before they send them to the list. This is unacceptable. If each person takes the time to clean up their own replies, then a volunteer won't have to spend hours 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. If we don't each delete all the extra junk from our email, then the volunteer moderators have to do it. Either that,or we have to send the message back to the members, reminding folks to clean up their replies. If someone is consistently sloppy, even after being asked to tidy, we may get fed up and choose do delete the posts. 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 do it BEFORE you start typing your reply, you won't forget to do it! If messages aren't cleaned up by anyone, then the Digest readers, the vision impaired readers, and the web based readers would have a very discouraging time trying to dig through the mess to find and read the delightful messages. None of the moderators likes to reject or delete messages, but at the same time, we really don't appreciate having to clean up other people's messes. It only takes a few seconds to clean up your responses while typing them and it saves others a lot of hassle. Please give your moderators a break. We could sure use one. -- Lyndi Moderator P.S. If you're a computer newbie and don't really understand what I'm asking of you, please post to the group 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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