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Thank you Ken,
Certainly repeating messages in total should be constrained. If
you are taking issue with a particular point perhaps retain that
particular point in quotes excerpted from the larger post. I would say
look at your message without any prior posts. Is it comprehensible and
cogent as is? As Ken has dramatically shown non-digest form members of
Mg-Ed-Dv is that these things become monstrous for daily digest form
members. Hey, if someone needs to look up something they can just go to
the archive at maelstrom.stjohns.edu to find it.
Remember, that some other members have slow connections, pay by
the quantity of information received, have mailboxes of limited size,
etc.
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel
Mg-Ed-Dv List Director

Next in this series of finger shaking will be "Spell Check Your Messages
Before Posting".

Craig,
Below is a reposting of Ken's original note APYR. It came to me
over Mg-Ed-Dv but I can imagine that given its original length it might
not have made it through to everyone.
Cybercollaborating,
Charles Wankel

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Dear Charlie,

Can you post a note asking for care with editing, please?

I've noticed in the current thread that layers of prior posts are
beginning to stack up. This is especially annoying for those who take
digest.

The worst case is a message from jack Ring that contains 685 lines of
repeat content for 12 lines of new information. The repeated content
included headers, footers, multiple repeats of prior posts.

Since we have all read those 865 lines before -- sometimes as many as
four or five times! -- this is a 685:12 noise-to-signal ratio with 57
times as much noise as signal.

Yowch!

Reading through this entire issue, I found repeated instances of
"me-too" posts.

If email discussion lists are to be a forum of deep and informative
communication, people ought to reflect on some of the communication
skills that can be usefully transferred from paper media.

Editing, quoting, and responding to specific topics are among these
skills.

This issue of Mg-Ed-Dv really annoyed me. If you run a content
analysis on the past five days or Mg-Ed-Dv, you'll get some
interesting results.

Best regards,

Ken

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