Re Do Not Quote The Digest!
Copyright 2003 Stan Lyness
Dear Message 5, I should begin
admitting I've delighted in
your clever line of repartee
with
> Message 9 from yesterday.
But, chuckling done, I then scrolled through
> a
> Message 1, then
> Message 2,
> through
> Message 8 and down the line
> to your debatee,
> Message 9,
> now sixteen busy screenfuls scrolled,
> through messages now two days old
> whose fragrant scent gives them away
> as things digested yesterday.
>
> Nor was the torment over then -
> I'd yet to pore through
> Message 10,
> which, once it dissed a
> > Message 4,
> > for all who'd missed that post before,
> > went on to quote the whole array
> > of clever posts from Saturday,
> > uncut and whole, from
> > Message 1
> > announcing old events long done
> > to
> > Message 7's vain request
> > to never send the whole digest.
Please! Never let our Yahoo Group
bog down in endless feedback loops.
Between the times you click 'Reply',
compose your lines, and let them fly,
perform some easy snipping then,
before you reproduce again.
