I've been online since about 1994 and this is true. It has always been considered good list manners to cut and paste when replying. I don't think anyone means to be rude or is lazy. I think there are just a lot of people online nowadays that truly don't know this.
missmoon


----- Original Message -----
From: A.D.
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 4/4/2005 8:47:30 AM
Subject: [LbNA] Lazy and Complacent- and a reminder


Reminder first, as I am absolutely sure some will not
want to hear what I have to say afterwards.

REMINDER: It is considered proper and good netiquette
to cut and paste ONLY the portion of any email you are
replying to on lists. I get messages in digest format

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> REMINDER: It is considered proper and good netiquette
> to cut and paste ONLY the portion of any email you are
> replying to on lists. >

Guilty as charged, but more for a lack of netiquette knowledge,
thanks for the lesson!

> > I'm glad I have taken my children with me to search
> for some elusive boxes-sometimes making up to 4 trips,
> gasp!

Kudos, I agree. I go boxing with my son and he likes the more
difficult boxes. We have spent hours rooting around in the woods
looking for those mysterious treasures and trying to solve the
puzzles, sometimes coming up empty-handed. It never daunts him, it
just makes him more determined to solve the mystery.
>
> She also says that was the most memorable time she has
> had in her life. Why? "'Cause we got to spend time
> together" she said.
>
> Priceless.

Not only is time spend with your child priceless, the look on their
faces, and their sense of accomplishment is something you don't soon
forget!!

MM & KK
>
>
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> What ever happened to General Hard*ss?!

I heard rumors that he retired and is now doing his best to be
complacent and lazy. =)

-- Ryan

Guilty! I look at all my lists in my email. In my
haste sometimes I just reply and forget to delete what
I don't want. I'll work on my netiquette.

MsDragonfli


--- JuneMcAllister wrote:
> I've been online since about 1994 and this is true.
> It has always been considered good list manners to
> cut and paste when replying. I don't think anyone
> means to be rude or is lazy. I think there are just
> a lot of people online nowadays that truly don't
> know this.
> missmoon
>




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This really is an issue for the digest readers. It's not an issue for
daily reader who see the posts as they come in and the most relevant
one on top.

It's one of the trade offs of digests.

On Apr 4, 2005 1:48 PM, Ms Dragonfli wrote:
> Guilty! I look at all my lists in my email. In my
> haste sometimes I just reply and forget to delete what
> I don't want. I'll work on my netiquette.
>
> MsDragonfli
>
>
> --- JuneMcAllister wrote:
> > I've been online since about 1994 and this is true.
> > It has always been considered good list manners to
> > cut and paste when replying. I don't think anyone
> > means to be rude or is lazy. I think there are just
> > a lot of people online nowadays that truly don't
> > know this.
> > missmoon
> >
>
>
>
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As well he should. He had a long and glorious military career. heh

missmoon


----- Original Message -----
From: rscarpen
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 4/4/2005 4:33:13 PM
Subject: [LbNA] Re: Lazy and Complacent- and a reminder



> What ever happened to General Hard*ss?!

I heard rumors that he retired and is now doing his best to be
complacent and lazy. =)

-- Ryan

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Actually sometimes people reply to posts and don't really make it clear who or what they are replying to. Sometimes I see someone posting other people's posts and *not* replying. I have no idea what ::::that's::::: all about. Aside from the digest issue, cutting out the rest of the message/s and leaving what you are specifically replying to sometimes just helps to make things clearer. It's not a big deal to do. It only takes seconds.
missmoon


----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Simpson
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 4/4/2005 5:07:21 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Lazy and Complacent- and a reminder



This really is an issue for the digest readers. It's not an issue for
daily reader who see the posts as they come in and the most relevant
one on top.

It's one of the trade offs of digests.

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In a message dated 4/4/2005 4:23:00 PM Central Standard Time,
nfmoon@mindspring.com writes:
Sometimes I see someone posting other people's posts and *not* replying. I
have no idea what ::::that's::::: all about.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

That just happened to me and I have absolutely no idea why.

I was posting from the yahoogroups site, something I don't usually do. But
this time I wasn't on my own computer, so I was reading the group from the
website.

When I hit reply, it put a big loooooooooong quote in the reply box, so I
deleted 90% of it and only kept the paragraph that I meant to reply to, and then
I typed my reply under that.

I hit preview, it looked fine, so I hit submit.

And when it showed up, the post was the 90% that I had *deleted* from the
original post, *not* my reply along with the 10% I had meant to keep! I don't
get it, but I guess I'll stick to replying from my own computer from now on. My
apologies to anyone who had to read the post I sent because it was just a
loooooooooong quote and no actual reply.

Pippi


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nfmoon@mindspring.com writes:
Sometimes I see someone posting other people's posts and *not* replying. I
have no idea what ::::that's::::: all about.

-------------

I can tell you! At least on my part. I've done it a couple of times, and it
was because as I was reading the email and hit reply, my cat stepped on the
keyboard and sent it off before I was able to type anything. I love her, but
she hasn't mastered the Internet yet. ;)

Chrissy

I too fight for desk space with cats. I feel your pain. LOL
missmoon


----- Original Message -----
From:
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 4/4/2005 8:35:45 PM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Lazy and Complacent- and a reminder


nfmoon@mindspring.com writes:
Sometimes I see someone posting other people's posts and *not* replying. I
have no idea what ::::that's::::: all about.

-------------

I can tell you! At least on my part. I've done it a couple of times, and it
was because as I was reading the email and hit reply, my cat stepped on the
keyboard and sent it off before I was able to type anything. I love her, but
she hasn't mastered the Internet yet. ;)

Chrissy

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> From: davyschris@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Lazy and Complacent- and a reminder
>
> nfmoon@mindspring.com writes:
> Sometimes I see someone posting other people's posts and
> *not* replying. I
> have no idea what ::::that's::::: all about.
>
> -------------
>
> I can tell you! At least on my part. I've done it a couple
> of times, and it
> was because as I was reading the email and hit reply, my cat
> stepped on the
> keyboard and sent it off before I was able to type anything.
> I love her, but
> she hasn't mastered the Internet yet. ;)

Someone really ought to design a "cat controls" setting, somewhat like
"parental controls," that would put your computer into sleep mode when it
receives input from the keyboard that constitutes "statistically improbably
keystrokes." Such as dfg42509bsdvkj.

(ref. "statistically improbable phrase," from Amazon.com's "search inside
the book" feature: an "interesting, distinctive, or unlikely phrase .. that
occurs a large number of times in a particular book relative to how many
times it occurs across all Search Inside books.")