--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 19, 2008, at 8:51 PM, David Hobby wrote:
>
> > jon louis mann wrote:
> >> // Thread hijacking is also considered bad form.
> >> Comedy of errors Maru
> >> Jon--
> >> // Hi. I like the '>' characters. All you have to do
> >> is count them to see who wrote what. Maybe it's a
> >>
> >> okay if i dbl // so i don't have to use the shift key, and cut and
> >> past the post with your name at the end, or is that what william
> >> means by thread hijacking? i tried to download thunderbird once.
> >> i'm not that computer literate.
> >>
> > So you're going to start your own convention, that
> > everything after a '//' is a quote, until you get
> > to the name at the end? Why? I mean, there's a
> > perfectly good method which almost everybody else
> > uses.
>
> Jon, I'd like to make a humble request that you consider adopting the
> standard that is used by nearly everybody else on the Internet. As
> you readily admit that you are "not that computer literate", perhaps
> you will forgive my suggesting this article from the Jargon File, a
> long-standing (and now somewhat aged, but still largely valid)
> collection of information about Internet conventions:
>
> http://catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html
>
> As the article says, "Inclusion practice is still evolving, and
> disputes
> over the ‘correct’ inclusion style occasionally lead to holy wars",
> but
> it seems that the issue of using right-angle-brackets is largely
> settled
> as a convention that is supported by most email programs.
>
> If you let us know what email program you use, I'll wager that one or
> more of your list-mates could assist you -- if you wanted to be
> assisted
> -- in configuring your emailer to use the long-agreed Internet
> convention for indicating quotes.
>
> Dave
>
> IAAMOAC Maru
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is this what you mean? it looks like gobbley gook. i tried the link
and googled e-mail program, and understood about half of what i read.
i still have no idea what e-mail program i use...
jon
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