Today's grouchy reminder of good practice from the FAQ is
"Edit mail so that readers see easily what the issue is
and what your contribution is. Please do not re-post the
whole of a very long message together with your one-sentence
tidbit. Your mailer may have a facility to select a block
of text and then reply quoting only that text."
I've just seen a posting that ended with _seven_
copies of the standard Statalist footer
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
Now people who do this mostly add their comments
at the top, so that you can read down as far as
interested, and (usually) then delete, which is fair enough,
but there is a downside too.
Please remember:
1. Most people getting Statalist get the daily digest.
Within all this extra stuff they have to wade through
a lot of unnecessary garbage.
2. Not everyone has multi-gigabyte postboxes.
Nick
[email protected]
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
