G'day Marg,   I can appreciate where you are coming from and yes people should check their email to see if some of the information in it is erroneous but it would quite nice to see immediately what the message is all about from an earlier point.   Checking the archives can be a time consuming experience also.   Please also allow me to apologise for the double posting as this recycled teenager hit the button twice, sorry. Wal Towells “May all the trees that you grow, bear fruit” --- On Sat, 16/5/09, MargM <[email protected]> wrote: From: MargM <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [HV] Tidying mail To: [email protected], [email protected] Received: Saturday, 16 May, 2009, 7:50 AM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wal Towells" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [HV] Repeat messages > I agree Dawn and sometimes it is good to see the trend of the messages particularly if you have come into things a little late. > > Dear Wal The idea behind my inserting  the tag line " Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. "  to all posted messages is to encourage subscribers to think about the amount of text they are posting back to the list when in the past they have added their '  Thanks for the info' to a complete message digest  and sent the whole shebang back to the list ............ The affect of that  is  messages get posted more than once, get archived more than once and can  quickly land up in an unintelligible string of multiples of Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message And taglines such as      Need a Holiday? Win a $10,000 Holiday of your choice. Enter now.http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTJxN2x2ZmNpBF9zAzIwMjM2MTY2MTMEdG1fZG1lY2gDVGV4dCBMaW5rBHRtX2xuawNVMTEwMzk3NwR0bV9uZXQDWWFob28hBHRtX3BvcwN0YWdsaW5lBHRtX3BwdHkDYXVueg--/SIG=14600t3ni/**http%3A//au.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline/creativeholidays/*http%3A//au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/%3Fp1=other%26p2=au%26p3=mailtagline that was tagged on your post  by Yahoo Need to keep list mail readable and so my surprise this tag line of mine has worked quite well  in this list and a couple of others I admin You can always play  catch up and  check the archives of any Rootsweb list . For the Hunter Valley  go to http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-NSW-Hunter-Valley You  posted your comment twice ............ Think about what you are posting please before you hit send  and use the delete key to tidy any post My next   project in tidying up list mail  is  " Does your message content match its subject header '  ?? Happy hunting Bye             MargM Hunter Valley List Admin Need a Holiday? Win a $10,000 Holiday of your choice. Enter now.http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTJxN2x2ZmNpBF9zAzIwMjM2MTY2MTMEdG1fZG1lY2gDVGV4dCBMaW5rBHRtX2xuawNVMTEwMzk3NwR0bV9uZXQDWWFob28hBHRtX3BvcwN0YWdsaW5lBHRtX3BwdHkDYXVueg--/SIG=14600t3ni/**http%3A//au.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline/creativeholidays/*http%3A//au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/%3Fp1=other%26p2=au%26p3=mailtagline