Re: On vs off topic -and- irritating people...

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Just a reminder of what initially kicked off this discussion, since  
no one have so far mentioned that in this new thread. It was about  
making life a little easier for those who struggle with a digest  
version of the list. In the digest version many letters are baked  
into one super letter, which means the user can not use normal e-mail  
filtering. Especially problematic for digest reading is when someone  
quotes way too much and out of context.

But people, please don't stop quoting now! Intelligent quoting makes  
reading a lot easier and is generally regarded as good mailing list  
manners. When replying, you should keep just as much of the old text  
needed for a new reader to get the background to your own reply. Drag  
with mouse button held down to mark text that you want to quote, hit  
Reply, type something and finally hit Send.

Thank you, Travis, for posting the list rules to the list. It just  
dawned on me that I have never seen those on the list and that's bad.  
Most lists have an automatic function that posts the general list  
rules once a month to the list, just as a reminder.

The "mysterious LDOT list" is not associated with this list in any  
way other than that it was crated as a private initiative by a member  
of this list and that some more members of this list is subscribing  
to it. I personally use it to post things like guitar amp reviews,  
funny stories or whatever not looping oriented. As for Cara's wish of  
having it all on this list I would like to suggest a way to make that  
happen in your own praxis; simply subscribe to the other list and set  
you mail application to dump those mails into the same box as the LD  
list. You don't even have to know to which list a single message  
belongs - hit reply and it goes back through the same "list channel"  
where it came in.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)