Let's all sing from the same hymn sheet
Posted: Mon 11 May, 2009 11:51 pm
"When replying to a post, it is often advantageous to quote sections of the original post. However, quoting an entire message can be excessive
Save other people time and bandwidth by quoting only when necessary, and then only enough to make clear what you are responding to"
1. Sometimes an 'entire post' can be one or two lines.
2. Most times, most people will realise, quickly, that they don't need to read all that quoted carp - they already read it once - and just move on.
3. As for bandwidth - well the reply to something, without a quote, could be excessive; the quote, just like any reply, is just text - a reply could be made with lots of very nice but uneccessary photos (?)
4. What's the big deal anyway? It's not like it's something that happens all the time or even very often - and when/if it does, it's usually newi-sh members that perhaps have not yet realised that quoted posts can be edited - or maybe think they have to quote a post to reply to it - I've seen that. But it's never caused this much fuss!
(FFS)
Save other people time and bandwidth by quoting only when necessary, and then only enough to make clear what you are responding to"
1. Sometimes an 'entire post' can be one or two lines.
2. Most times, most people will realise, quickly, that they don't need to read all that quoted carp - they already read it once - and just move on.
3. As for bandwidth - well the reply to something, without a quote, could be excessive; the quote, just like any reply, is just text - a reply could be made with lots of very nice but uneccessary photos (?)
4. What's the big deal anyway? It's not like it's something that happens all the time or even very often - and when/if it does, it's usually newi-sh members that perhaps have not yet realised that quoted posts can be edited - or maybe think they have to quote a post to reply to it - I've seen that. But it's never caused this much fuss!
(FFS)