Re: rules and etiquette

[Mike.Ashland@GSBSC.GENSIG.COM]

     To all,
     
     I understand Professor Gilmore's complaint, but I, for one, find it 
     more convenient to be able to reread the specific part of the original 
     message the responder is referring to, especially if the time between 
     original and response is more than a day or two.
     
     I may have thrown away the original, or it may be residing in a file 
     or an archive somewhere. Either way, those who respond without 
     including, at a minimum, the specific item they are responding to, 
     often leave me scratching my head and trying to remember "Now what is 
     all that about, and is it something I wanted and needed?"
     
     Regards,
     
     mike.ashland@gsbsc.gensig.com
     
     
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Subject: rules and etiquette
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet2 
Date:    1/30/98 1:38 PM
     
     
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     Now that I am getting digests, I would say that a "thank you" or 
"sorry" message takes up a whole lot less space than people not 
deleting the last three messages they're responding to and filling up 
our mailboxes with stuff we've already read once or twice (or three 
times)!  But that's just my opinion, not the opinion that counts.
     
HANDBELL PEOPLE have all gone campan-
     
David F. Gilmore
Assistant Professor of Environmental Biology   
P.O. Box 599, Dept. of Biological Sciences  
Arkansas State University 
State University, AR 72467
dgilmore@navajo.astate.edu
ph  501-972-3082    fax 501-972-2638