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Mike, I have also noticed that this can get out of hand. One reason is that we don't change the subject line when we change the subject. I think that can help solve the problem. Also, by deleting by hand a lot of the trailing prior quoted messages before hitting Send. The problem with changing Preferences, is that it changes them for ALL your email, and I find it is usually a good idea to include one or two prior messages in a conversation for the needed context. Not just on xmca, but in e-life in general. JAY. Jay Lemke Professor (Adjunct, 2009-2010) Educational Studies University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 www.umich.edu/~jaylemke Visiting Scholar Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition University of California -- San Diego La Jolla, CA USA 92093 On Apr 4, 2010, at 9:54 AM, mike cole wrote: > We have some members whose emails trail all those that precede them (I think > you are one such, > Larry) making for sometimes horrendously long messages. That information is > always available in the > xmca archive so I would urge people to check to see to minimize > unnecessarily long repititions of repititions. We are repetitive enough in > our main messages!! > > Here is what to look for: > > "Modern" email clients like Eudora, Thunderbird, SquirrelMail, > GMail, Outlook, MacMail, etc., all have preferences the user sets > for composing and sending mail. > > Two popular settings are: > > * Compose messages in HTML format > * Automatically quote the original message when replying > > Both of these come set to "On" as default. > > Find them, usually in the "Preferences" or "Settings" panel, and turn > them off. > > Of course, if you are deliberately engaging in this practice and wish to > continue for the virtues such > practices may have, up to you. > > mike > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca