Julia Thompson wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > 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! :) > > Yes, but it's a really lazy-ass way to do it, and I'll admit to some > lazy-assed-ness at times. > Also, another good idea is to trim the message to the essential part. This message, for example, could just have the last 2 quoted lines :-)
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