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At 16:02 21/02/98 -0800, [a number of posters in combination] wrote: [A message] > >-----Original Message----- [which quoted another message in full] > > -----Original Message----- [which itself quoted another message in full] [and finished with cascading xml-dev backmatter]. and in another message a simple question was asked followed by cascading quoted messages which added no value. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Since new members are continually joining the list - and we welcome them :-) - , I'll reiterate our policy for minimising the amount of material posted. Remember that: - many people pay personal money for mail (including me) - duplicated material is excessively tedious on the hypermail list and takes up valuable space - duplication takes up space on reader's local storage. - automatic quoting is not a good approach towards managing information. XML encourages people to normalise material as much as possible. Please therefore excise all material that you don't directly refer to in your message. Most people prefer to see the quoted material followed by the annotation rather than the annotation followed by the original message. Remember that the material is all hypermailed and publicly visible and (optionally) available as a digest. Both of these should be attractive to read. :-) For more details and suggestions of other styles to adopt/avoid, you may wish to follow the various LISTRIVIA threads. These also comment on multiple copies of postings :-) P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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