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Re: Charles' comments to Matt and David

Well Ladies & Gentlemen,
	 I was beginning to think I was going to have to stand alone 
on this issue.  and I admit to a Flame.
	I have written to several subscribers of the list personally 
and asked them to clip their responses. I have written to the full 
list many times requesting same. I get back messages about how 
important it is to keep the full text of the thread together in their 
reply. I insist that most of us don't have the time to go through all 
the SPAM to get through to important information. If it isn't 
archived on each and everyones' computer, then it is on the AKA 
computer where the list originates.
	There are 137 subscribers to this list. It has been growing 
steadily since inception. Some of us have decades of experience to 
add the education of to the new subscriber and new Killie keeper. 
But when there is so much >>> and carriage returns it is impossible 
to get through to the real information.
	I run an E-Commerce business. I get a minimum of 200K of 
e-mail everyday. The business almost three times that. I don't have 
time to scroll through all the >>>'s and repeated lines of recent 
messages. If this list and its subscribers want my advice there are a 
few items of etiquette which need to be followed. Personally I think 
it shows laziness and lack of respect to others, especially those of 
us who have 100 to 250 K of incoming e-mail a day.
	Those of us who use the Digest have little or no option but 
to look through the ">>>'s" and try to follow the lines to find the 
important things in the daily posts. I talked to Barry at the 
beginning of this list years ago and discussed the need for an 
introduction to newcomers to spell out a few rules of web etiquette 
like snipping the past posts, and excluding the HTML formatted text 
but he didn't think restrictions were needed back then. Well it has 
gone far enough to need something. Of the 137 subscribers to this 
list many of them like myself just don't have time to try to get 
through the fodder to see if we can help the new keeper or someone 
who could benefit from decades of our personal experience.
	 HTML formatted text is just as bad. It repeats the messages 
with HTML commands which no one understands. Once in a while someone 
tries to send a JPEG of GIF through the server. What a mess that is. 
If there is a message on that server dump I will never see it. DELETE
	So I think we need an Intro file to give guidance to 
subscribers. There needs to be some rules of the road.
Not a soap box, I want to get to work.

Charles Harrison,
Back to change some more water.
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SLAKA
Charles H. Harrison, Ph D
  e-mail to csharrison at primary_net
http://www.inkmkr.com/Fish
  Change as much of your water as often as you can!
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