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the minimum, but do not overdo it. It should still be possible for
somebody who did not read the original message to understand what
you are talking about.
This is especially important for postings of the type "yes, I
see this too", where the initial posting was dozens or hundreds
of lines.
If you have a new question, do not reply to an old post, but compose
a new email. Otherwise the email will be appended to the thread you
were replying to and not starting a new one,
which makes it really hard to find that message again.
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message, and which text you add. A common convention is to prepend
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programs break lines around that are too long. This makes it
tedious for fixing files and getting them in the proper format.
Acronyms should only be used for general phrases, like HTH
for hope that helps. Otherwise it will make it hard to read
the post. See the Cygwin acronym list for more information.