Re: Responses (was: Re: BIRD PHYLOGENY, DNA, MOL. CLOCKS)

[Stan Friesen <swf@ElSegundoCA.ATTGIS.COM>]

From: Kiran Wagle <entropy@io.com>
 > On 01/10/96 pharrinj@PLU.edu wrote:
 > 
 > > our only option is to go through the message and manually delete
 > > most of it.  I will try to be more considerate in the future, though.
 > 
 > Then that's what ya gotta do, huh.

I may have misunderstood him, but he seemd to be saying his mail system
didn't support block deletes, which is what most of us use.  Individually
deleting *each* *character* would indeed be a quite tedious, and time
consuming.

If I am right about this, I suggest he get a new e-mail system!
 > 
 > Many people who've been on the net for a while adopt a policy of deleting
 > any posting that has no new text on the first screen (which is often 24
 > lines including headers.)  And some people will kill-file people who
 > include "too much" included text in a message, no matter where it is.

I tend to do this, but I am inconsistant about it.
[Actually, my cutoff is closer to two or three screenfulls].

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