<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Glad to see the flurry of activity on the list today.</div><div><br></div><div>It's very helpful for readers and the archiving and search software if we keep posts trimmed. </div><div><br></div><div>By that, I mean so that if you're replying to a post that's had 3 or 4 replies, that you quote only the last reply, which is the one to which you're replying.</div><div><br></div><div>Same thing for those on the digest, but also change the Subject line so it matches the topic. </div><div><br></div><div>Why? It's not to annoy or make more work for posters. </div><div><br></div><div>Trimming keeps the posts much more readable, and it also makes MUCH less work for search engines which would otherwise index all the previous posts' content multiple times.</div><div><br></div><div>Think of it as saving only the shots actually used in the show.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks much!</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>