On 4/25/06, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-25-04 at 13:38 -0400, Jay Savage wrote: > > *Don't top post.* > > *Prune your posts* > > Quote only what is important to your comments. Remove nested quotes > (unless really, really important). > > Change the subject when you change the subject. > > > -- > __END__ > > Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, > --- Shawn > > "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing > them." > Aristotle > > * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials > * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/
And keep your .sig to 4 lines? ;) Seriously, though, go easy on the pruning. The rule of tumb is is that the message should include enough information that a person joining the thread can make sense of the response from the response itself. Unless the OP is particulalry verbose, the question is particularly complex, or your reposne is to a very specific issue in the post or previous comment, you'll want to be careful about pruning. Text is cheap: err on the side of pity for people who don't have threaded email clients. Best, --jay -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.tuaw.com http://www.dpguru.com http://www.engatiki.org values of β will give rise to dom!
