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= NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please =
= be more selective when quoting text =
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you might want to consider a good program to seperate them into individual
messages, or just a reader, that understands digest format.
-Jeffrey
--
The day MS makes something that doesn't suck
will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, J. C. R. Davis wrote:
>
> I get the digest version of this list (all messages as attachments in one
> message), and I want to know if anyone else find it a bit annoying that a
> string of hyphens is used to separate messages? No, there's nothing wrong
> with that in itself, but within messages, people replying to others will
> have a similar string in their "Original Message" section.
>
> For example:
>
> // begin example:
>
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynch, Jason JD
> Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 9:56
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: MD: DIY Battery Box?
>
> I agree!
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynch, Jason JD
> Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 9:56
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: MD: DIY Battery Box?
>
> >Do you agree?
>
>
> // end example.
>
> Do you see what I'm trying to say here? The original post looks like a
> new post, until you scrutinize it some. In the digest, all messages are
> running together, and I just think that perhaps it would be functionally
> better to divide each MDL message with equal signs, so such confusion
> wouldn't occur, and so that reading speed is increaed.
>
> And you know what else? ("What?") Some people regularly do not snip
> enough of the original message their quoting and have the following
> footer:
>
> // being example.
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> // end example.
>
> . . . actually in the body of their message. I keep thinking it's the end
> of the digest! Everybody please snip heartily.
>
> And since I'm not a roll, those long signatures are really annoying.
> (Quick personal gripe.)
>
> I thank you for listening. Just looking out for a better MD environment.
>
> J. C. R. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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