Posting etiquette

[David Bowie]

From:    Damien Hall <halldj at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>

: Could I please, fervently, renew my plea for people to make their
: posts clear? I've posted about this before, making two specific
: requests:

: 1.  Please would EVERYONE ALWAYS sign ALL their posts?

Happily done.

: 2.  Please would people mention the subject of their post in the body
: of the post, ie not just in the subject-line of the e-mail?

: What was a minor niggle is becoming a bit more of an annoyance, due
: to the fact that if you receive the digest version of this list, the
: individual posts don't have their subject-lines or their senders at
: the top of them...

Um, Damien, as someone who receives the digest version of this list, I'll
just point out that your post came in the middle of the list with the
following information at the top of it:

Date:    Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:10:38 -0500
From:    Damien Hall <halldj at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: Posting etiquette

In fact, I used that to rename the subject line *and* to attribute what
you'd written.

<snip>

BTW, for the person who asked why anyone would ever get the digest version
of this list--I've got two reasons:

(1) It's less difficult to lose one big email a day amidst all my spam than
lots of little ones.

(2) I'd rather hit CTRL-D once to delete one email after reading it than
click CTRL-D gobs and bunches of times after reading the same information in
lots of little emails.

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