Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00282)

I agree that the one bulletin board "Theos-L" is a good place to put most
postings since it is the board that most of us watch.

But there is something we all can do to save us all a lot of time.
Many of us have the habit of recopying all or part of someone else's message and
then put our own comments after it. This is easy to do with the Internet tools
that we use but it is very time consuming for the readers. In some recent
instances I have had to re-read someone's relatively long reposting of an
earlier message just to see their one or two sentence comments about it.

If we all use a little common sense and just give a simple reference to a
previous posting or a few words to summarize it our messages would be shorter
and more succinct saving everyone time. For example my lead sentence of this
posting simply refers in summary to previous postings from "Coherence" "John
Mead" and others about the use of the Theos-L board. I could just as easily
have copied their entire messages just to add this comment. But then you would
all have had to read it over again just to get to what I have to say.

I offer this simple suggestion for your consideration.

Sy Ginsburg