Multiple Distributions of ARN-L Digests

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

Joe <monicalucido@comcast.net> (2007), in his ARN-L post of 15 Jun 2007 titled
"Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 440 Messages: 6," evidently hit his 
reply button so as to include the ENTIRE 74 kB Digest 3(440) in his 
reply and thus redistribute it once again to all subscribers. 

Then yet a second redistribution occurred when Joe 
<monicalucido@comcast.net> (2007) was carried again as a single 
message in "Arn-l Digest Vol. 3 No. 441 Messages: 1."

Unfortunately for ARN-L subscribers and the integrity of ARN-l 
archives, Joe's redistribution of an entire already archived Digest 
is not uncommon. The ARN-L archives for June
 <http://interversity.org/lists/arn-l/archives/Jun2007/threads.html> 
list five such posts in addition to  <monicalucido@comcast.net> 
(2007):

Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 428 Messages: 4 (1), monicalucido (06/02/2007)
Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 428 Messages: 4, aburke5054 (06/02/2007)
Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 430 Messages: 7, Steven Bergkamp (06/04/2007)
Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 438 Messages: 6 (1), monicalucido (06/14/2007)
Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 438 Messages: 6, aburke5054 (06/14/2007)

Suggestions #2, 3, & 5 of my universally ignored "Fourteen Posting 
Suggestions" [Hake (2005)] are:

2. Use SUBJECT HEADINGS that accurately convey the topic of the post 
(especially important for following threads in archive searches). If 
you are replying to a post whose subject heading follows an 
established thread such as "trim the message" and you think the 
subject of your post would be better stated as "Fourteen Posting 
Suggestions," then give the subject in the thread preserving form 
"Fourteen Posting Suggestions (was trim the message)."

3. Indicate the SPECIFIC post (date, discussion list, title, and name 
of poster) to which you are responding. With such information the 
archives can immediately yield that post - THERE'S NO NEED TO COPY 
THE ENTIRE REPLIED-TO-POST INTO ONE'S REPLY!

5. If you *must* reply to a post by hitting the "reply" button (bane 
of discussion lists) and thus often littering the list with 
superfluous already posted once ">", twice ">>", thrice ">>>", etc., 
etc. material, at least prune the original message normally contained 
in your reply down to the few lines that are relevant to your reply.


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>


REFERENCES
Joe <monicalucido@comcast.net>. 2007.  "Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 
440 Messages: 6," post of 15 Jun 2007 18:40:12 +0000; online at 
<http://interversity.org/lists/arn-l/archives/Jun2007/msg00057.html>.

Hake, R.R. 2005. "Fourteen Posting Suggestions," online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0507&L=pod&P=R12861&I=-3>. 
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