Brian Z Jones wrote:
>> 3. On mailing lists, I usually didn't write the original message, and so
>> there is no way I can remember "what I wrote".
I run my own mailing list for me and my friends. Just a place for
people to spill their thoughts and for us to plan stuff and such. It
gets a surprisingly high amount of traffic per day, for only like 7
active members. Usually about 30 or 40 emails a day. And everyone in
it except for me doesn't quote anything. I get so completely lost
trying to figure out what is going on. I'll see a message like:
"Yeah, that's a great idea"
with no text quoted, not even who they are replying to. That's
impossible to follow.
If you quote below your reply, I read it like this:
"Yeah that's a great idea"
<scroll down and read original>
<scroll back up>
"Yeah that's a great idea"
And now I understand it. If the reply was below the quoted text, I read
the text and then the reply and it makes perfect sense. And if it is a
topic I remember, I just scroll past the quoted and read the reply.
Much easier way of doing things.
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> As for this, I agree. I was referring more to e-mail than to news. I
> don't read newsgroups too often, but, as I've been doing a lot recently,
> I have found that this is true [hence the format of my current reply].
Mailing lists aren't newsgroups. Mine runs through listbot. You
address mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it is automatically
sent to anyone subscribed to the list.
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>>> [...] as your reply may get lost as I scroll on down, so I guess I just
>>> like things my own way.
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>> If you are using a mail client which highlights text based on the ">"
>> nesting level, you won't miss a thing.
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> PINE doesn't do this, and was my main reader for a long time [until
> about six months ago]. I've noticed Outlook do this occasionally, but it
Outlook is a bad example of a mail client, on a standards complience
view. And it did/does have some issues with opening blazingly large
holes in my system's security
