Dora enjoys other info left in there . . .

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Subject: RE: Unsubscribe?

Maybe I am stupid, but I don't know what you mean by editing previous

posts. >>

When you want to respond, hilight the part you are responding to. Press Cntl-C.

Then hit reply. Some eMail programs will copy *only* the highlighted part . . .

if not, once the reply is opened, press Cntl-A (select all), then Cntl-V (pastes

the former highlighted section)

<< I just reply as I do to any email and send it on. >>

And when you do this, you send the entire message, over and over again, into the

archives, and the digests. This makes the archives hold fewer messages, because

they only hold a certain amount of data. And it makes the digests incredibly

long. Recent digests (with many posts between you and vercheer) have been

5-6000 lines long!

<< I do that so that everyone can see what I am responding to. When I get all

of the

emails sometimes I have to read back and see what they are responding

to. When I get an email that is just a response you can't always

understand what they are responding to.>>

That's why you cut and paste a few lines, etc. Not keep sending the same posts,

with 2 lines of new text added, over and over. Because it's not just 2 lines of

added test, it's dozens, if not 100s, of lines of headers, footers, yahoo ads,

etc.

<< I personally enjoy the other info being left on there. I guess we are all

different.>>

No, we are *not* all different . . . If you were wading thru *thousands* of

lines of crap, you wouldn't enjoy it, either.

It's not a matter of preference, it's a matter of common 'net courtesy, and a

matter of conserving our resources. What you're doing is like letting the water

run while you brush your teeth. It uses an incredible amount of bandwidth to

send this much garbage back and forth each time. And it makes the archives

useless . . . worthwhile informative posts are bumped offline, in order to save

400 lines of the same junk, over and over again.

Hawkridge in Washington State.