REPLYING to Higher-Fire (Warning)

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Greetings Saints in Jesus name!

This is more of a *be aware* kind of post.... I'm kinda *peeved* right now
at the volume of postings we're getting to the list that don't exhibit any
editting of the previous post.....

Please, when replying to someone else's post, only keep as much of the post
as necessary to establish a *context* (an excerpt that refreshes ones mind
back to the previous posting - and not a complete reposting) in which you
are responding to.

To hit the REPLY button, and then not cut out any previously read material
(leaving <snip> markers along the way where thing were trimmed), is really
not good nettiquete.

Some folks pay by *piece* of email, some folks pay by *volume*, some folks
pay by the *download time* (because they don't have the luxury of having
a local ISP) to get/read/compose/send email.  I don't want for anyone to 
be potentially sending anymore to the list than they really need to.  

Things that are <snip>able are email-headers and email-signatures though 
there are some that still don't chop these out, it's getting fewer and fewer.
Those are immediate targets of the editting scissors.  After that, I'd keep
the next four to six lines of a previous post (if you responding to the post
in general) and then <snip> in the left-hand margin to show space showed by
cutting out previously read text.

If you're responding to a post, point-by-point, then it's a little different.
Cut out the text you aren't responding to.  Then intersperse your comments
after that with which you are taking issue with.

I'm just *way* tired of seeing this bunch not editing their postings any
more than they do.  To blindly REPLY, more than anything shows sloppiness.
And for each and every message sent to the list archived on the WWW at
Bro Browns web server, it's there for EVERYBODY to see.......  I'd rather
put a better foot forward.

I also don't want anybody to make me or Bro Richard's job harder
being as we read through (or at least skim) the posted message
before you get to read it.  If we reject a post, it only creates
more (unpaid) work for us.  If you want to keep the Moderator/Owners
happy, you won't make any more work for them than what they already
perform....... :-)  

Bro Tyler
Co-Onwer/Co-Moderator Higher-Fire
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Tyler Nally  <tgnally@prairienet.org>