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Hi guys,
I hate to be a squeaky wheel, but recently I find that I'm spending an
inordinate amount of time cleaning up posts prior to approving them for
release to the LML. In particular, it seems that many of you quote back
the entirety of the message to which you're replying, including even the
message headers and footers, stuff that the listserver automatically
attaches to every post that's sent. This means that everyone is going to
have to look past all that duplicated material, not to mention re-read a
post that they've usually seen within the last few hours, or the last day
at most. I understand that some of us have short memories, but generally
it is enough to identify the post to which you're replying by inserting its
subject into your subject header. If you really want to focus your reply,
the use of a small quoteback (a sentence or two) should be enough to
provide a reminder of what your post is referring to. Please stop quoting
the "Lancair Mail List" title from the top of the post, and the links to
the LML website and LML Builders' Bookstore from the bottom. I realize
this means that you might have to edit your post a little bit, but it only
takes a second or two to eliminate that unnecessary content from your
end. When done from my end I have to log onto the LML management website,
call up the post in question, call up the editor, edit the post, resubmit
it and then approve it. When it's aleady done, however, I can just approve
it through my normal email management system and that's that. It might not
sound like a big deal, but if you multiply it by 5 or more posts per day,
over the course of weeks and months it adds up to a considerable amount of
wasted time. That doesn't include the wasted bandwidth to send the same
thing over and over again, or the wasted space it takes to store all that
extraneous (duplicated) information in the archives. Please take a look at
your posts before hitting that "send" button, and make sure that the
information is pertinent and necessary. Your cooperation in this matter
will be greatly appreciated.
<Marv>
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LML website: http://www.olsusa.com/Users/Mkaye/maillist.html
LML Builders' Bookstore: http://www.buildersbooks.com/lancair
Please send your photos and drawings to marvkaye@olsusa.com.
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