From:
miamiferret
Date: 2002-02-21 11:26:00 UTC
Subject: Quoting text
When one replies to a message, Yahoo (and most likely your email
program depending on your settings) includes the ENTIRE message to
which you are replying. On the Internet, this included text of the
previous message is called a "quote." Internet etiquette dictates
that the text that is quoted should not be much more in length than
what you are writing.
VERY FEW PEOPLE FOLLOW THIS GUIDELINE or even come close.
Occasionally, someone will even quote an entire digest just to say a
few words. I personally do not have time to do your editing for you
and will simply reject or delete the post.
Please folks, take a few moments of YOUR time to delete the unneeded
portion of the quoted text. Simply double click your left mouse
button at the point you want to start deleting, hold the button down
on the second click, drag the mouse down and you'll see the text
become highlighted. Once all the text you want to delete is
highlighted, hit your DEL button. It's really simple and only takes
a few seconds!
mike