On Feb 11, 2012, at 1:00 AM, Ken Friedman wrote: > And there is another issue. When you repost an entire prior reply, you force two thousand readers to re-read the entire prior reply. When you re-post a long string of prior posts, you force people to read back through the entire string. When you edit selectively, you highlight the specific issues to which you respond, improving the conversation and adding value to the list. I made a off-hand comment in a class once, and one of my then students adopted it as an email sign for many years: "The designer should work harder so the user doesn't have to." Not a bad slogan. Gunnar ---------- Gunnar Swanson East Carolina University graphic design program http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graphic/index.cfm Gunnar Swanson Design Office 1901 East 6th Street Greenville NC 27858 USA [log in to unmask] +1 252 258 7006 http://www.gunnarswanson.com