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[OM] Annual Trunc Your Junk message

Subject: [OM] Annual Trunc Your Junk message
From: Larry Woods <lmwoods@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:09:36 -0400
Hi -

It is time for the roughly annual "Trunc Your Junk" message:

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE truncate most of the previous message when you 
reply!  It's OK to leave the URL, the specific sentences you are 
responding to, etc.,  but delete the bulk of the message, especially the 
headers (Date/From/To/Subject), the signature trailers, and extra 
especially the prior message(s) attached below the one you are replying to.

This is a courtesy to those who get the message traffic from this list 
as a daily digest, where an entire day's worth of the list's 
conversations get collected and sent as a single email at 10:16 GMT.  
Lately it has actually been two emails because when the list reaches 
about 120kB, it sends a digest out, and another one at 10:16 with 
anything collected since the last digest went out.

These are practically unreadable.  I have only caught up to June 20 at 
this point (it's June 25 now).  One of those 120K digests contains 70-90 
messages, and around 2800 lines, over 50 pages if it was printed out.  
It takes my mail browser about 3 minutes to merely scroll through that 
many lines with my finger leaning on the down key, and not stopping to 
read anything.

Furthermore some messages contain four or five imbedded messages, with 
barely legible formatting like this:

    >>>>  >>>>  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Jim Nichols
    >>>>  >>>>  <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
    >>>>  >>>>
     >>>>>  >>>>>  Along with the beauties to be found in our yards and 
gardens, there
    >>>>>  >>>>>  are
    >>>>>  >>>>>  also pests.  In our area, the Japanese Beetle is near the top 
of the
    >>>>>  >>>>>  list.


Because the imbedded old stuff includes the headers, I can't do a search 
on 'Message:" or "Subject:" to jump to the next message.

Just to see what would happen, I took a 125k digest and deleted all the 
imbedded lines starting with ">"s.  The digest dropped from 56 pages to 
28, from 2784 lines to 1098.  That would be alot easier to scroll through.

Thank you.

      ----- Larry Woods
              lmwoods@xxxxxxx
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