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Etiquette

Text Trimming:

It is inconsiderate to include 50 lines of another person's message

in your reply, only to tack on a one-line response. It wastes time,

costs some people money to download, and is considered bad form

everywhere. You should delete all but the couple of sentences or

paragraphs that you are directly commenting upon.

Conversely, a one line response like " I agree! " with NO quoted text

is not productive as well! How is anyone to know exactly what you're

responding to? Include at least a little bit of context.

Me Too's and Thank You's:

Along the same lines, sometimes a member asks for volunteers or

offers to send something to people who ask, which triggers a flurry

of messages with " ME TOO! " or " I WILL " or " SEND ME ONE, PLEASE " or

other basically content free posts.

Then there are the many " Thank you! " messages. I understand the need

for politeness, and I certainly understand gratitude, but such

messages don't add much to the LIST except to burden everyone who has

trouble coping with list volume.

Both of these kinds of replies ought to go directly to the original

author and not be relayed to the list.

Posting in Caps:

Please don't ! It only makes it look like you are yelling at whoever

you are talking to and is offensive psychologically whether you mean

it that way or not. Most of us here are pretty fragile [part of Hg

toxicity] and do not deal well with conflict etc so it is not allowed.

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