[NTLUG:Discuss] top post, bottom post bs

[Fred]

I just had to weigh in on this. Top or bottom, left or right.... who realty (or
is that Reilly) cares?
What irritates the crap outta me is those lazy posters who reply with the
entire original message added. It just doesn't take very long to cut-n-paste
the pertainant info into a new message, thus saving bandwidth and making the
digest more readable.

And about the digest: does it need to provide all the header info? For
instance:

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:40:38 -0500
From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: O'Reilly Discussion Guidelines
Message-ID: <407743F6-0201-11D9-9958-000A959A173A at unspecific.com>
In-Reply-To: 
<1094685098.31733.14.camel at bitman.oviedo.smithconcepts.com>
References: 
<1091212885.1354.517.camel at bitman.oviedo.smithconcepts.com>
<410A9897.2010507 at thecommune.net>  <413F8871.8030506 at brave.com>
<1094685098.31733.14.camel at bitman.oviedo.smithconcepts.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: list
Reply-To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
Message: 1

That kind of stuff is prefacing each entry in the digest. I may be the only one
that feels this way, but everything other than the sender, date and subject is
superfluous and serves to junk-up my screen, as it does nothing for the
readability of the digest. It kinda adds to the garbage effect caused by lazy
posters.

My $.02, of course.

Fred
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