> Hi Chris,
>
> I do agree with deleting some "non-important" stuff...but who is to say
> what is not relevant to another.
The one making the reply. If the reader doesn't know what the original
message was about, then it's easy to look back in the inbox (unless it's
been deleted...).
> How
> about if you and I and everyone else allows the person sending the
> email decide what is important to keep in and what is not?
Sounds fine to me.
> For you I will make and effort and delete
> all footers.
Not just for me, I'm sure there are others here who will appreciate that.
> You mean less to read. We are fastly becoming a world that does not
> like to read. However, I see your point, but see mine too...I have
> not the time to be picky about everything, do you??
then you probably don't have the time to search through a huge email
looking for the relevant part to which the poster is replying. It's much
easier (and therefore faster) to read like this, in order don't you think?
> I have a boyfriend that can't stand this kind of email, he wants
> everyone to use HTML format. Shall we all conform to him because it
> "looks better and is easier to read" (his words)???
oooh, best not to go there... I've been flamed mercilessly for accidentally
posting to a mailing list in html once. I think your boyfriend is one of
the minority there. OK, html can look nice, but not all viewers support it.
> Wouldn't you like to know what was the original email and who was the
> original emailer?
It's still in my inbox, and I can easily refer back to it if I need to.
> Remember, selective replying can cause misunderstandings, it is
> also a way to manipulate what another was trying to say to make them
> look bad or good.
That's why one should take the time to do it carefully.
> How would you like it if I cut out your web site in the reply, knowing
> this
> is going to everyone. You have lost some extra chances in someone
> seeing your web site URL from my return email.
Delete it. It's not relevant to your reply. Everyone who sees your reply
will probably have seen my sig in my message in the first place.
I don't want to start a 'I've been doing this longer than you' type war,
but when I first ventured on to the Internet, it was email/usenet access
only and involved using a 2400 dial-up connection to a bbs to retrieve a
zip file with all my messages.
Then I would disconnect, read, reply/compose, make a new zip file and send
it back. Needless to say, at those speeds, making the messages as small as
possible could save my phone bill. It used to really wind me up to receive
a thread containing humdreds of lines per message with only a few new lines.
Things are different now, but old habits die hard. Also, unlike you, I do
have the time to format things as I like to. right now I'm at the cafe, I
have one customer and I'm just going through the emails I received last
night. Not exactly busy.
Chris.
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