ADMIN: Greetings from the Hexquarters!

[hpfgu_elves]

No: HPFGUIDX 187021

Greetings from Hexquarters!

In the last few weeks, the Elves have noticed several posts where list members
are leaving in huge chunks of the previous conversation in the thread.

We would like to remind everybody that we ask that you snip quoted material
down to the bare minimum necessary for understanding of your new
comments. You can always assume that posters who participate in the discussion
read the thread in its entirety. If you as a member think most or all of the
post to which you are replying is
necessary for clarity, you might consider deleting all
of it and providing a post number or link.


Please refer to the relevant portion of the HBF for further guidance:

2.3.2 Snipping

People do not like to have to scroll through acres of irrelevant material to
find the part
you're replying to (not to mention your new comments!) so please snip (delete)
all quoted
material, leaving only the minimum necessary for others to understand your
reply. This
basic consideration helps those with slow internet connections and bandwidth
concerns.

Snipping properly can be trickier than it sounds, though, so here are some
additional
guidelines:

You should assume that anyone reading your response has already read all of the
other
messages in the thread, so it is not necessary to reproduce the gist of the
entire thread in
your reply.

If you've quoted more than a paragraph without inserting a comment of your own,
or if
the quoted material is longer than your own remarks, you probably haven't
snipped
enough.

If you are using Yahoo's automatic attribution feature (which happens when
hitting
"reply" to a message), please make sure to remove any unnecessary information,
including names of people who are not being quoted in your message. Don't forget
to
delete Yahoo footers and ads at the end of the post.


Thank you,

List Elves