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Please, Please ... make each message stand alone

Yahoo Message Number: 91398
To ALL CCO members,

Please make each message standalone. In other words, don't assume people know what/who you are referring to. For people who receive the DAILY DIGEST or INDIVIDUAL messages, they may not remember the detailed information contained in previous messages about subjects that arrive in random order. Here are a couple of quotes from some past replies. Can you tell me who/what they are referring to?

Expensive? I found them to be among the lowest cost companies.
Who did you find to be cheaper? >> Re: New shocksSteve.... I agree with Mark and Larry.......I am having all my hoses changed out right now at Colton Truck. colton Truck >>

Thanks for the info. Now I have to find a way to get to it! >>
I'll be coming your way in a couple of weeks. I will check with you when I get near to see if you still have them. Would you hold them for me. >>
BOTTOM LINE: Read your reply before you send it and see if it, by itself, can offer value to more than one member of the group. If not, (1) clarify the message, (2) send it as an Individual Message, or (3) wait until you can check the item out and then report back to the group..

Herb

CCO Group Moderator
 

Please, please

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 91408
Good luck with that! The norm on this and most all other lists is to provide either no context for a reply, or to clip absolutely everything, no matter how redundant, so that it is impossible to discern a meaning. It is like a large room where two people are trying to communicate and are being drowned out by hundreds of other pairs all talking at the same time.

Ken 

"Please make each message standalone. In other words, don't assume people know what/who you are referring to. For people who receive the DAILY DIGEST or INDIVIDUAL messages, they may not remember the detailed information contained in previous messages about subjects that arrive in random order. Here are a couple of quotes from some past replies. Can you tell me who/what they are referring to?"