[worldvista-adoption] etiquette for lists

[JohnLeo Z. <jl...@no...>]

This new list holds lots of promise, I think.

I've just taken a few minutes to look over the first 55 messages (i.e.
June). Before we go too far into it, I would like to request a couple of
measures that may make life more pleasant and the list more productive.

I pasted the entire month's messages into an editor. Total characters
for the 55 messages is about 277 K. But about 80% of that traffic
consists of replies with automatic quotations. We need to clip off the
trash when doing a reply.

By way of illustration I include below a bit of fluff trimmed from a
single message. Consider what this stuff does to those who try to
subscribe to the digest form of the list. In my experience with other
lists digests are unreadable with this much trash clogging the
bandwidth. Has more to do with the poor human reader's mental bandwidth
than with the Net's capacity. :-)

regards to all,
I do hope to make some substantive contributions, too. :-)

jlz


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