[Air-l] your posts on air-l

[Eszter Hargittai]

Dear Fellow List Members,

This is yet another plea that you take some care when you post a message
to the list. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not copy in the entire message from a
previous list.  Please understand that for those of us (about 70% of
subscribers, it seems) who read the digest version, it makes reading the
list extremely difficult. It is very hard to see where your post of the
copied lengthy message ends and where a new post begins.  This means that
anyone who posts after you on the list has a smaller chance of getting
their message read.  That seems like a very inconsiderate thing to do. 

Moreover, this also makes the archives extremely hard to use because there
is so much repetition, and again, it's very hard to see where new posts
begin.

Another thought: if you could not send HTML messages that would also make
messages easier to read for those of us with text mailers and that would
make the archives more manageable as well.

Finally, as a follow-up to spam problems, when you forward messages from
someone, please remove - or ask the original poster for their preference-
the email address of the message originator to reduce chances of being
added to spam lists. 

Thanks for considering.

Eszter

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