[C320-list] C320-List Digest, Vol 176, Issue 1

[Jeffrey Hare]

Hi David,

   I sent you an email earlier about this question, but of course you didn't
get it because McAfee decided to choke and refuse to allow it off my
machine... 

Alas...  The simple answer to your question is:  You have to read the
"unquoted" part of each person's post.

(Most people don't need to read any further)
 ==========================================

The main reason is that email discussion lists and most online forums are
not sequential discussions.  By their nature, you are free to reply to any
individual part of the discussion.  Doing that creates a branch in the
discussion.

Consider this:

1) You post a question
2) 300 people get the email and 10 people respond.
3) 300 people get 10 new emails (one from each person who responded).

At this point, you have 11 emails on the topic, and each of the responses
probably has the original message BELOW in some type of "quoted" form.

4) As you can guess at this point, people are free to respond to any of the
11 emails on the topic sent, and therefore, there's rarely a single email
that has the whole discussion in it.


Since you subscribe to the digest version of this list, it's not as easy for
you to sort by topic.  That's why most folks use email filtering and
judicial use of the "delete key" to manage what they want to read.

Cheers!
-Jeff





-----Original Message-----
From: Detrick, David (GE Comm Fin) [mailto:David.Detrick at ge.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:15 PM
To: c320-list at catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320-List Digest, Vol 176, Issue 1

How is the best way to determine the most complete auto pilot string below
from all the others 

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