One thing I do when lifting quotes from another source is to put in a square bracket, then a quote, and end with a quote and a close-square-bracket. That sets it off very nicely.
Economy of expression is good until people start getting confused. Just my $0.02 http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ "The revolution will not be televised. It will be digitized." >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> >To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: mail client? >Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:32:35 -0500 > >jon louis mann wrote: > > not sure what you mean? what is a mail client? where > > do you want me to use quotees? it should be obvious > > what was paraphrased for brevity. it is simple enough > > to add quotes if that would please you. > > > > i edit everything i post tp remove all the headers. i > > use cut and paste to leave out the >>>s and other junk > > that clutter everything up. i wish everyone else would > > do the same. > >You're being asked to leave in the >>>>s so everyone else can figure out >what's being quoted. > >If you really don't want those, doing something like: > >Rob: >[quote what Rob said] > >Me: >[add what you have to say] > >It confuses the hell out of everyone else if you don't either leave in >the >s or do that. So please do one or the other or someone will lash >out rather non-constructively in frustration one of these days. > >And no, no one else is going to eliminate the >>>s just because you >don't like them; it's a convention that's been used for years and years, >and most of us are used to it and find it useful and find the lack of >them annoying, to say the least. > > Julia > >_______________________________________________ >http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
