A gentle reminder about the message board

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Hi All,

It's come to my attention lately that quite a few of our members

have forgotten to edit their replies when answering another

person's post by carrying through the original post, and even

other replies, when they respond. It is recommended that we

delete the bulk of the post or posts that we are replying to, and

just include a brief summary of the initial post, instead of just

hitting the " reply " key and sending it all through

There are valid reasons why this is discouraged. Many of our

members receive their PAI mail in individual emails or a daily

digest, and this repetitiveness means that they have to read the

same message over and over again, thus taking up valuable

space in their mailboxes. Another reason that this repetitiveness

is discouraged is that all our posts are archived for our future

reference use, and it puts a massive strain on the archives to

have duplicate, or triplicate information that keeps carrying on

and on through the archived messages.

I know we are all anxious to respond to certain messages that

are written to us, or that we have information to contribute to. Yet

if we can take this extra step to edit our replies, it will greatly

improve the whole message process, and enable us to have a

much cleaner archive system.

Thank you all for your help in this bit of housecleaning. If anyone

doesn't understand how to do this, please feel free to contact

me.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep.

PAI, Intl.

Note: All comments or advice are personal opinion only, and

should not be substituted for professional medical consultation.