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Re: [ECS] ECSW Mailing List -- ALL ECS'ers Please Read Ingo Pakleppa Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:46:12 -0400

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Re. HTML: I still use Eudora 3.0, which kind of somewhat does a little
HTML. Unfortunately, it uses a dialect quite different from Netscape... So
I second the "no HTML" suggestion.

I abstain on the number of lists.

I would like to amend the "don't quote" suggestion. More importantly, I
prefer to read mails where the new stuff is at the TOP of the quoted text -
keeps me from scrolling down all the way. Of course, if you want to embed
your replies to specific paragraphs, that often makes a lot of sense, too.
Just please avoid appending your reply to the bottom of a mail (seems to be
Netscape's default)!

Ingo

At 11:32 PM 8/31/98 -0400, Wayne wrote:
>At 06:08 PM 8/31/98 -0700, David Mccoll wrote:
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>>I have asked Richard Yee our kindly list server provider if it would be
>very much trouble to add a second ECS list so the development/beta can be
>off loaded to a different list. Richard informed me that he would be glad to
>do so and that it was not too much trouble. So I leave it to you guys to
>vote on having a list / forum that could possibly serve the ECS World
>better. The proposed list would be open to all.
>
>I kinda like the idea of more than one list, but I don't have any idea on
>how to divide it.  I don't think we need to separate based on Windows vs
>DOS, yet.  I am still using v3.3 under DOS, but sometimes the discussions of
>the very new stuff are interesting/relevant.  So, I would still need to
>subscribe to both!  The only advantage would be to aid
>filtering/sorting/searching...
>But that can be easily handled if people keep the subject line RELEVANT!
>PLEASE, if the subject is drifting from the original topic, PLEASE change
>the subject line.  For example the JDS list just had a LONG discussion about
>worthington, but it was all under the subject of 'thermostat
recommendations'.
>
>Also, please don't quote the entire message when replying and reply directly
>to the sender when appropriate to avoid clogging the list.
>
>So, I guess I don't object to a second list, but I wonder who wouldn't
>subscribe to both anyway?
>
>As long as we are taking a survey: Am I in the minority that still use a non
>HTML mail reader?  What is list policy about HTML encoded posts?  I see
>exactly how much longer HTML posts are and I am much more critical about
>keeping those longer posts.  They also take twice as long to download.
><soapbox mode off>
>
>c'ya,
>Wayne
>
>   waynew 'at' magicnet 'dot' net,   Orlando, FL
>   http://www.magicnet.net/~waynew
>

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