On Thursday 13 Oct 2005 13:48, Billie Walsh wrote: Rather a long quote, for someone who is advocating pruning. Why did you quote complete, including my sig lines? Perverse, indeed.
> > Quote from > http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrivaMailingListEtiquette > : > > " * When responding to a previous post, please prune (snip) text > from the post that is not needed to understand your contribution to > the thread. > > * Don't be afraid to trim excess verbiage from the thread when it > starts to become too long. Quoting only those parts of the e-mail you > are replying to is acceptable." > > I think this is just what I was suggesting. By using <snip> quote > <snip> you are telling the reader that you deleted everything above > and below what you are quoting. > OK - symantics. No big deal. > I notice that few prune the previous post. Indeed, and we do get tired of reminding people. Bandwidth is a real issue for some of our readers. > Almost every other list I'm on requires that you have this > setting turned off. > Unnecessary, if you apply intelligent pruning. What's more, when you do need to quote a sentence or two it's harder then to differentiate the levels of quoting. > * For posts with multiple points, it is fine to intersperse your > new comments, with each new comment below the one it is referring > to." > > Posting inside the previous post becomes very confusing [ scroll up > to the post I received and sort through what I said and what you said > ]. I had no problem up to this. I use an intelligent mail reader that differentiates the levels of comment. Yours, however, shows your quote and your comment as the same level in your posted message. > > "display problem" ????????????????????????????????????????????? > As far as I know my display is just fine. I'm not aware of any > "problem". > You tell us that your reader cannot properly display quotes. You have been given a solution to the problem and you appear to be determined to ignore it. I shall, therefore, ignore any more of your comments on this subject. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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