RE: Saving bandwdith

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken, et al.
See below:

Carl J. Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street, Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
(770) 422-2995 - voice
(419) 730-8212 - fax
mailto:cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
AS400 EDI, Networking, E-Commerce and Communications Consulting and
Implementation

>And another thing, if someone asks a simple question, see if someone else
>has answered it before sending an answer yourself.  Because of lag time and
>because of the use of digests, it is impossible to totally eliminate
>duplicate answers, but at least look through what has hit your inbox first.

It may help to sort your inbox by thread/subject and date so you can see all
the related messages together.  Outlook and Outlook Express do this.

>Seriously, let me disagree slightly with your last sentence.  I think that
a
>SHORT public thank you from the original requester can be appropriate if an
>individual put forth some special effort or came up with a solution to a
>difficult problem.  If another person benefits significantly as well, that
>would probably be better done privately.

Also a quick thank you lets others know that a reply solved a problem and it
is good to know what the solutions are.

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