At 09:32 AM Thursday 4/19/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: >jon louis mann wrote: > > not sure what you mean? what is a mail client?
That is a generic term for the program you use to compose and read e-mail, e.g., Lookout! Express, Eudora, etc. > 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 then someone else will make a snarky remark on the topic . . . :P (And someone else will probably make a snarky response to that snarky remark, and on and on . . . ) >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 However, when it gets to being something like >>>>>>>>>>>> at the beginning of every line, it would help to pare those down and replace them with labels such as Julia recommends above. Or even better, unless it is absolutely necessary¹ to understanding what you are saying, snip the old stuff entirely and save bandwidth as well as frustration for the reader. _____ ¹I admit that in some cases different people may have different opinions of how much of the old stuff is "absolutely necessary" to the understanding of what they are adding to the discussion. In most cases, though, quoting and re-quoting and re-re-...quoting multiple lengthy paragraphs in order to make a one-line reply is unlikely to be needed very often. ;) -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
