As I was an offender in clicking< "reply"and "send" without deleting unnecessary material in particular quoted earlier posts>, my apologies. I'll try not to do it again. It was my first post. Sent from my iPhone When I rest, I rust. Judy > > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:59:50 -0700 > From: Rodger Whitlock <totototo@telus.net> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Subject: [pbs] Editing quoted posts > Message-ID: <58D2AD86.40602@telus.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > People! For heaven's sake, it's now 2017 and the internet has been as > common as sliced white bread for over twenty years, yet careless (or > uncaring or inattentive) subscribers to this mailing list ***still*** > just click "reply" then "send" without deleting unnecessary material, in > particular quoted earlier posts. > > Guess what the silent reaction is of other subscribers? It's "how > stupid! How dim! How unthoughtful! What a nuisance having to scroll > looking for the beginning of the next message!" > > Regrettably, this habit is fostered by email clients that don't handle > email digests (which is the format of the postings PBS sends out) at all > well. I'm using one myself, Thunderbird 38, and yes it takes a while to > prepare a reply posting. But if I can do it so can you! It's no more > difficult than editing aq any plain text document. > >