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At 09:18 24/03/98 -0500, [A number of people who don't read my messages] wrote: [...large amounts of quoted material...] ending in THREE XML-DEV signature quotes Normally I would title this message LISTRIVIA, but some posters ***including some well known names*** have been inconsiderate in their postings lately. ***Having returned from 2 weeks absence, I posted about 3 mails to XML-DEV. MOST OF MY MAIL THEN CONSISTED OF ***MULTIPLE POSTINGS OF UNNECESSARILY QUOTED MATERIAL***. What saddens me is that I posted (gently) to the list only a week ago, and the inconsiderate behaviour started immediately afterwards. It's very simple: Decide what you want to say (the standard is very good - keep it up). Say it, clearly and concisely (again good) Don't say what ***other people have said*** unless it's critical Reply ***only to the list*** READ YOUR MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING. Cut out any unnecessary quotes. If you think this is fussy, be aware than many people have to ***pay for what mail they receive***. An XML-DEV'er may be proud of what they have posted to this list, but they don't want to have to pay to read ***SIX*** copies of it as I have had to this week. 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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