Attribution problems

[Alicia]

A suggestion to eliminate the 'now me' phenomenon:
X-Original-Yahoo-Groups-Redacted-From: "Alicia" <alician at ...>
X-Original-Yahoo-Groups-Redacted-X-Sender: alician at ...
X-Original-Yahoo-Groups-Redacted-Return-Path: <alician at ...>

I teach Internet skills to community groups and I've met more than a 
few of those TechnoSquibs. Most of them want to get online and want 
to do the right thing, but lack the experience and confidence to do 
it. They will learn eventually from watching others, but that does 
risk picking up bad habits like 'now me'. One thing I've found 
helpful in the small board I run for teaching purposes is to have an 
admin message containing a sample post showing the acceptable way to 
do things (accurate subject line, attribution, etc). This gets posted 
every few months. It shows new students what to do and jogs the 
memories of the older ones. Admittedly, most of my students are very 
new to the Internet (and even to computers) and so need a lot of hand-
holding, but a variation of that idea might work.

Alicia,
a lurker who misses the long signatures that everyone used to have.