Posting FAQ now correct

[John E. Malmberg]

Ok, first a little housekeeping.  There seem to be a lot of new posters 
to this forum that do not have experience with mailing list and newsgroups.

Apparently this URL is being put at the end of the first message in the 
digest, and I do not know where it is being put on the individual 
message.  It is inserted by the mailing list software, and has recently 
been corrected to work.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Also please reference the OpenVMS FAQ:

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/faq/vmsfaq.html

Please pay attention to section 1.3

> # If responding to a posting, include in your reply only as much of
> the original posting as is necessary to establish context. As a
> guideline, consider that if you've included more text than you've
> added, you've possibly included too much. Never include signatures
> and other irrelevant material.

As stated above, you should not ever be quoting or attaching the 
original post in it's entirety when responding.  Trim as much as possible.


See also:

  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/usenet/primer/part1

  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/usenet/faq/part1

  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/usenet/emily-postnews/part1

  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/usenet/writing-style/part1

  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/usenet/posting-rules/part1


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-John
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