I have to comment on the way the members of "the list" answer the letters sent in. It seems to me that the answers would be shorter if everyone stopped including the original letter with the answer. Please just answer-we all already received a copy of the original, and it is not wonderful to keep seeing the same words over and over. I hope I am not offending anyone, but sometimes I like to save the letters from Hannover, and like to keep the saving to a minimum!
I am looking to hearing from all of you!
Sincerely, Ghyll (Jill)
Hi Jill,
I'm not sure that I agree. Sometimes an email comes in without the
previous letter and it is hard to know what they are talking about if you
don't know the original question or any details. I guess if we only left
the original letter and not three or four various replies, that would be
okay.
If you are saving paper copies, you can just copy and paste into a word
processor and save what you want. Or, if you are saving a letter in your
mailbox, you can just forward the letter to yourself by hitting the
"forward" option and omit the stuff you don't want. I have a separate folder
for "genealogy" in my mailbox where I keep important emails that I want to
save.
Barbara
Hi Barbara and Ghyll
This is one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't situations. Those of us who have acquired high speed, always on, connections don't worry much about the length of messages. Those who haven't or can't must pay for every minute, and some of those copies can get long. I suspect some people also do not know you can set your email unit to not return copies.
Happy hunting
Fred
Vito & Ghyll schrieb:
I have to comment on the way the members of "the list" answer the letters sent in. It seems to me that the answers would be shorter if everyone stopped including the original letter with the answer. Please just answer-we all already received a copy of the original, and it is not wonderful to keep seeing the same words over and over. I hope I am not offending anyone, but sometimes I like to save the letters from Hannover, and like to keep the saving to a minimum! I am looking to hearing from all of you!
Sincerely, Ghyll (Jill)
Hi Ghyll,
quoting is *not* a miracle!!
If you want to reply to a mail, just keep those parts of the original mail which you need for revealing aims and delete *all* other parts - only so called "full quotes" (especially those consisting of several different mails [the complete "thread"]) are the nuisance!!
By the way: a simple "Hello" at the beginning of your mail would have made it look a bit more friendly.
And could you be so kind to tell your mailing program to make a carriage return after each 75 - 80 characters? It's a bit difficult to read a mail that has just two lines of text, but the first one containing several hundreds of characters.
Thank you.
Best regards
Detlev
Hello Ghyll,
Just to let you know that your message came through on my computer
perfectly fine. I have no idea why it would look different on Detlev's
computer, but you surely can't be blamed for that!
Barbara