Trimming posts---MacDV Digest #2747

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 06:43:00 -0400, Steven Romero <leromero at mac.com> wrote:
>  > I then edit the header to change the digest date-time to the message
>>  date-time, and to change the name of the list to the name of the
>>  poster. I also edit the Subject to change the digest name and number
>>  to the subject of the message I'm replying to.
>>
>
>When you change the name of the list to the name of the poster, do you
>copy in the list? I think the whole point of the list is the exchange
>of ideas wether good or bad. When you don't put your reply in the list
>I think your doing a disservice to the list. Am I wrong?

I guess I wasn't clear. I change the name of the list to the name of 
the poster in the "At [date-time] [so-and-so] wrote:" tag line, not 
in the reply message header. For example, when I pasted your quoted 
message into this reply with Option-CMD-V, the tag line read "At 5:14 
AM -0700 6/26/04, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:". I edited it 
so that it reads "On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 06:43:00 -0400, Steven Romero 
<leromero at mac.com> wrote:". When copying the original message, I 
always include the From/Subject/Date lines from the digest so I can 
copy-and-paste this information into the tag line and the reply 
message Subject header, and then I delete those From/Subject/Date 
lines. Following is what this message contained right after I used 
Option-CMD-V, before any editing.

At 5:14 AM -0700 6/26/04, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:
>From: Steven Romero <leromero at mac.com>
>Subject: Re: [MacDV] Re: Trimming posts---MacDV Digest #2747
>Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 06:43:00 -0400
>
>>  I then edit the header to change the digest date-time to the message
>>  date-time, and to change the name of the list to the name of the
>>  poster. I also edit the Subject to change the digest name and number
>>  to the subject of the message I'm replying to.
>>
>
>When you change the name of the list to the name of the poster, do you
>copy in the list? I think the whole point of the list is the exchange
>of ideas wether good or bad. When you don't put your reply in the list
>I think your doing a disservice to the list. Am I wrong?

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