Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:47:19 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Message headers [WAS: Re: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:58 AM 3/18/2005, Mike B. wrote:
>At 11:51 AM 3/18/05 -0500, Ted White wrote:
> >From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
>
> >> send you the messages too, but even when set to "plain text" it doesn't
> >> follow long established standards for message format (like what is used in
>
> >I've never had that problem.  Rather, the reverse:  clueless people quoting
> >previous posts without trimming -- the worst being those who get the
> >digests and quote an entire digest.
>
>Regardless of whether the post is ASCII or HTML or some other MIME type,
>that problem exists.  Clueless newbies and lazy people are ever present.
>
>My favorite targets of fantasy revenge are the ones who quote an entire
>digest just to add "me too!"...and then sent it both to the mailing list
>and to me direct so I get TWO copies....grrrrr......

It's not as bad this time but would people please change the headers when
the subject changes?  We've been quite good about this in the past but seem
to be slipping and it adds to the workload.

Elspeth