Thanks John. One more thing, for us 'puter illiterate, of which I am one
and could not figure it out until I called you 3 times for guidance. First,
you have to hit the "reply" prompt at the top. Then go to the trailer at
the bottom and all the lines with /// in them, highlight them (left click
and pull down until all are highlighted), then hit delete. Now you can reply
and it will get there. How'd I do John, OK? Can't teach an old dog new
tricks, HA!
George.
George J. Malaska, VIN#768
Vice President, Membership
Bricklin International
Elkhart, IN.
219-522-4819
----- Original Message -----
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
To: <Bricklin@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:17 PM
Subject: email trailer
> I received an email to day asking me about the "email trailer". I'm sure
> others have the same questions, so I sending my reply to the entire
> group.
>
> I must applaud the fellow for asking the question. There is NO such
> thing as a dumb question!
>
> ---------
>
>
> >At the risk of sounding like I'm not an expert at this stuff ...
> >please explain what the following means at the bottom of each
> >message sent to all from "Bricklin@autox.team.net" mailing list
> >that says ... "Edit your reply! If they included this trailer,
> >they will not be sent". I don't understand what this means or
> >how I can remove the "trailer". Please explain.
>
>
>
> Sure no problem. Some of this you can blame on Micro Soft.
> With so many people using Windows 95 98 NT etc and Outlook
> (express) many of the mail system are getting clobered.
>
> backround:
> If you are using MS Outlook (express), when you reply to
> an mail, it copies the entire email into the new post you
> are getting ready to write.
>
> Ok, that seems reasonable, so where's the problem?
>
> Well, you should edit the original email, and only keep
> enough of the original to jog the memory of the sender.
> In other words, only keep a line or 2 from each paragraph,
> or 1 paragraph from a page, etc.
>
> So many "newbies" don't understand, and just hit the buttons.
> It's not their fault, no one has told them how to use the
> various applications, of which email is just one.
>
> The end result is that you post a question. I reply to your
> original question and include the orig. question. No Bob,
> comments on my comments, So now the message is your, mine and his.
> This goes on several time per each piece of email.
>
> So now the piece of email is very very long with only the
> 1st couple of lines having any meaning. This is costing
> the hosts of the various mail servers lot and lots of
> storage, and also bandwidth. We are having to transmit
> several thousand characters of text for 1 or 2 lines.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> The answer:
> To stop this, the person responsible for "autox.team.net"
> has put the trailer on all outgoing messages. These are
> the lines at the bottom of email from the Bricklin mailing
> list that start with the ///. You MUST delete these
> lines when you reply to an email. Again, when you reply
> to and email, remember the orignal post gets copied into
> your reply. You need to scann down to the bottom and find
> the "trailer".
>
> If the mailing list software sees an incoming email that
> has the trailer, it will discard the incoming email.
>
> I hope this answers your question. If not, or you have
> any other questions, feel free to ask.
>
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
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>
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