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please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:17 pm
by April Neave & Norm Keller
Please stop quoting the entire original message in replies! This practice
makes it very time consuming to page through the digest and adds nothing to
your message.
Just my $0.02
Norm
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:01 am
by Don Bittle
I've seen this practice in every forum that I belong to. My guess is that
lots of folks don't know how to delete unwanted parts of the message. I was
guilty of this when I first got a computer.
don
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please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:41 am
by Don Leamon
Body properly deleted.
Uh, newbie to the list, but a www veteran (~'94), curious as to why this
group is still using a mailing list, rather than a forum? Seems to me
that there would be enough vendors out there that could provide
support...
Mailing lists are cool in that you see all threads, and mailing list are
a major PITA because you see all threads.
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:07 am
by Don Van Dyke
Ok, I'll bite.
What's a forum? Can you point us to any samples?
At 11:40 PM 1/10/2005 -0700, Don Leamon wrote:
>Uh, newbie to the list, but a www veteran (~'94), curious as to why this
>group is still using a mailing list, rather than a forum? Seems to me
>that there would be enough vendors out there that could provide
>support...
Don Van Dyke
Sacramento, California
Moto@...
www.intellection.org
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:19 am
by Jud Jones
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Don Van Dyke wrote:
> Ok, I'll bite.
>
> What's a forum? Can you point us to any samples?
>
www.klr650.net/forum/>
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:49 am
by Don Leamon
OK, my bad, I had come across the
www.klr650.net/forum/ but in haste I
failed to note that you had to register to even read the posts. Since it
(forum layout) is, well kinda unprofessional looking, I thought it was
not very active or even operational.
That being said, what are the differences in knowledge/members between
this list and that forum?
I personally haven't used a list since like '97, and I prefer the forum
format...
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:43 pm
by Erik
> I personally haven't used a list since like '97, and I prefer the forum
> format...
Maybe try to get a gmail.com account. The mail reader there is
auto-threading, and I believe will make mailing list reading much more
forum like.
Me, I think you're cuckoo. I'm a www-veteran of roughly the same time
frame as you (maybe a bit earlier; I started young), and you can have my
mailing lists and terminal based email clients when you pry them from my
cold, dead hands.
erik
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:56 pm
by John Kokola
I like the 'community' feel of the mailing lists, and they seem to be a better choice for groups of a smaller size -- like when you have a mailing list for a particular kind of bike. I prefer this list the way it is, for instance.
When you have a broader group of folks (say like advrider.com, or wera.com) then the advantage of picking and choosing the threads you want to view becomes more important.
JMO
--John Kokola
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:08 pm
by Don Leamon
>Me, I think you're cuckoo. I'm a www-veteran of roughly the same time
>frame as you (maybe a bit earlier; I started young), and you can have
my
>mailing lists and terminal based email clients when you pry them from
my
>cold, dead hands.
erik
Didn't know that www-veterans were unable to remove the recipients
address in a reply so they don't receive the same post twice.
Just call me Cuckoo... oh that's right, you did.
please stop quoting the entire original message in replies!
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:08 pm
by Jud Jones
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Don Leamon"
wrote:
> OK, my bad, I had come across the
www.klr650.net/forum/ but in haste I
> failed to note that you had to register to even read the posts. Since it
> (forum layout) is, well kinda unprofessional looking, I thought it was
> not very active or even operational.
>
> That being said, what are the differences in knowledge/members between
> this list and that forum?
>
> I personally haven't used a list since like '97, and I prefer the forum
> format...
It's pretty active; not quite as busy as this list, but more so than most with about
2000 members. A lot of folks from this list are active there as well, including
quite a few that I consider to be reliable sources of advice. I'm gonna say that
the overall level of technical knowledge is slightly higher here, but maybe it
just seems that way because the yahoo list isn't as pretty.