Sorry Scott, That was my fault and a too quick on the send button.
~Rick > > > Please, IMail forum posters, would it be possible to take a few > minutes to > learn a proper quoting style? In this case, the poster quoted my message > as though he wrote it in response to someone else's message, and then he > added someone else's message (as though he wrote it), and then added a > 1-line response (which appeared to be part of what that someone else > wrote). It's very confusing. > > Two rules that ought to go in the forum rules (and ought to go to > all rules > everywhere): > > [1] Please, any time you use "Original Message", make sure that > you do not > alter the original message. Original means "original", not "not > original". I often ignore such E-mails, assuming that the sender hit the > SEND button before they responded. > > [2] Although I personally prefer the ">" quoting style, and it would be > nice if all quoting was consistent, others prefer other styles. However, > you should *never* mix someone else's message with yours (such as below, > where the first line starts as "That's not..." instead of > ">That's not..." > or "Original Message:[linefeed]That's not.."). If there's no way to > distinguish what you are writing from what the original person wrote, it > becomes very hard to read, and many people will just ignore the E-mail > (often not knowing that you wrote anything of your own in it, or thinking > it is a duplicate message). > -Scott ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
