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Brett Greene <[log in to unmask]>
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Brett Greene <[log in to unmask]>
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Has there been a change on PIPORG-L regarding quoting?

I read all PIPORG-L e-mails diligently and have not received any updates to
the list practice since David Kelzenberg's May 23, 2017 e-mail, just over a
year ago.:

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Kelzenberg, David C <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Andy wrote:
>
> >>>I don't know if anyone has mentioned.... this list (or any other
> list-serve I've ever used) does not take attachments.
>
> I had already replied to the original poster with this information.  My
> suggestion was to simply copy the list into the body of the email post.
>
> By the way, Andy's post (as well as many others of late) was followed by
> pages of nested quotes from previous postings.  I guess this is a battle I
> can only lose, since I have mentioned it repeatedly over many years, yet
> the practice continues.  Let me try once again:  PLEASE delete the quote of
> the previous posting when replying!  I know it is harder to do when using a
> phone, but try to figure out how to do it.  It is nothing but clutter, both
> in your post and in our archives.  It is bad enough when one complete post
> is repeated in a reply, but when 5 or 6 or more are all chained together
> following each response, it is a ridiculous waste of bandwidth and storage
> space, which is not infinite!
>
> dk

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