Hey gang -- I don't know if this irritates others as much as me, BUT...
here's a little common sense suggestion for all posters to 'tweeters' and any
list serve for that matter. It's nothing new, just a reminder. When you are
replying to an individual message or thread, it is NOT NECESSARY TO REPEAT
THE FULL CONTENT of other messages on the subject. Shorter is better and If
you wish to address a specific part, select that part, not the whole message!
Otherwise, your postings make your reply / posting absurdly long and
unwieldy to anyone reading messages individually, in the digest, or on the
web.

I read 'tweeters' daily on the web (Jack Siler's most recent postings
option), and when messages such as the current discussion of the Tacoma
Iceland Gull go on and on and on with what is 90% rehash of everyone else's
comments, you are wasting my precious time as well as everyone else since we
have to scroll and scroll and scroll to get to the end of it. Stop it! This
is the 21st century now and those of you who've been around on computers and
'tweeters' for a while should know better AND you are doing yourself a
disservice not to mention throwing up a 'flag' on your name by demonstrating
this unacceptable display of computer illiteracy if not just plain laziness.

If you are reading 'Tweeters' on the web either via Jack Siler's portal or
the daily digests and wish to either retain a specific posting or thread, you
can select that part, copy and paste it to a new email addressed back to
yourself. Then, if there is a part of that which you care to address and
post to the list, you can select, copy, and paste that part into a message to
the whole list. I think a lot of 'tweets' have dropped off this discussion
forum or access it through the web these days which I find a more sensible
alternative to an otherwise clogged mailbox. But as everyone's time seems to
be more restricted these days, I'm finding fewer good, stimulating, and
sometimes heated discussions than in days (years) past. Where did the likes
of Michael Price and Don Baccus go??? Maybe the 'honeymoon novelty' in the
dawn of the Internet is over and many of us have just moved on.

Thanks for your consideration to all of us here on the list, and PLEASE do
not reply to THIS post by reposting the whole thing. If you do, I WILL kill
you :-)) -- 'figuratively' not literally :-)) --Richard Rowlett

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Richard Rowlett (Pterodroma at aol.com)
47.56N, 122.13W
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA, USA

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought" --Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893-1986).
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