Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> 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.
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>
>
> 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
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>
>
> 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! :)
Yes, but it's a really lazy-ass way to do it, and I'll admit to some
lazy-assed-ness at times.
Julia
was that snarky enough for the context?
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