Policing a mailing list like this is inappropriate to the point of
discourtesy and distracts from the discussion at hand.

Bob Cochran

Paul Louden wrote:
> Leonard Morris wrote:
>> last time I did not leave the message in tack I was specifically told
>> to reply to the original message for persons wishing to review the
>> archive.
> "Reply to the original message" does not mean "quote the entire
> previous message" nor does it mean "top post." You may quote the
> relevant parts of the previous message contextually. But the
> guidelines are posted, and if anyone asks or tells you to break them,
> they're in the wrong. The guidelines are publicly available, you may
> verify yourself what is required, rather than arguing with me about it.
>
>
Received on 2008-02-14