On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 11:23 AM, John Teffer wrote: > And many mail reading programs offer the option of color-coding quoted > text, > I use OE5 and each successive layer of quotes is a different color, so > I can > easily skip to the black text to read what's new. > > Of course, I still think that people need to trim their quotes and > write > simply, so that ideally you don't need to scroll at all to read the > whole > message, including quotes.
the point behind many of the conventions of e-mail quoting is that not everyone has sufficiently advanced clients for some of these features. a sufficiently huge portion of the internet community is still using clients like pine. also, email is not instantaneous (though, these days, it seems like it if you're in a country like the US or Canada or most European countries). Users in countries with problematic or slower backbones to the internet (eastern europe, southeast asia, others) often complain when people quote too little because replies can show up in their mailbox before the original message. Some smaller academic institutions here in the US suffer from this problem as well, if their mail delivery is UUCP. this is VERY common on USENET. If this is the case, you have no idea when the original will arrive, so people in this situation tend to read the whole message every time. As in my last post, it really stinks to have to read from bottom to top... -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
