[Coco] Once more: TRIM YOUR POSTS

[rietveld rietveld]

I may be in the minority but I prefer the long form emails. I find that the archive of responses usually hold a wealth of information from all who have taken the time to comment or reply to said post.

I am sure there are other ways to archive the feedback but I just prefer to scroll through the email and find an instant set of responses to the question or comment initially brought up. Often times the comments branch off to other thoughtful banter. It's often the off tangent banter that spurs more lively discussions.

Again I am probably in the minority with this thought

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  Original Message
From: Salvador Garcia via Coco
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 11:43 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Cc: Salvador Garcia
Subject: Re: [Coco] Once more: TRIM YOUR POSTS


 Hi Spencer!

Specifically in this case, "trim your posts" means to include the bare minimum of text of previous replies. For example, here I snipped all the text that does not pertain to my response.

It is important because in the case of lists, the accumulation of text can become a burden for the communication and storage resources of the server that hosts the list. Also, this list can either be received through individual emails where each email is one post, or through a digest which is one large email that contains all the posts for a given period of time or number of posts. If all the text from previous responses is included, those who read through the digest will be looking at a majority of text from previous responses (posts), even struggling to find the newest responses. We wish our insanity to come from resolving CoCo issues, not because we have to wade to tons of "old" text to find the latest information. :-) Salvador



    On Thursday, October 18, 2018, 9:18:00 AM CDT, Spencer via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

 Exactly what do you mean "TRIM YOUR POSTS?" 
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Why is "TRIM YOUR POSTS" so important?  Isn't this a forum of sharing?
 Spencer M.

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