Adrian : I have noticed of late, that there are many quotes from
people's email attributed to "someone" ...
Alain : I do that when I am not sure who wrote the passage ...
Adrian : ....or worse still, the wrong person.
Alain : ... in order to avoid mis-quoting someone.
Adrian: Yes I realise this, it wasn't meant to be an attack on you,
just an observation of a problem, I've done the same thing in the
past.
Adrian : Perhaps the best way to avoid this is to adopt Alain's method
of quoting as a standard. With this standard, every paragraph is
preceeded by the name of the person who wrote it -- including
paragraphs you write yourself.
Alain : It makes it easier to scoop up a subset of a message without
mis-quoting its author. It will also make it much easier to thread
together related messages into Digests and/or Summaries.
Adrian: Note quoted text still has the ">" before it, to make it
easier to find the new text.
Alain : I often remove these because they are an eye-sore and, more
importantly, everyone has different settings for the line breaks which,
in turn, causes replied-to messages to be all broken up. Removing all
line breaks and ">", on the other hand, will give the recipient of the
reply the cleanest presentation possible.
Adrian: I can remove all the ">", though I'm not convinced it's a
good idea. The line breaks I can't do much about, my email client
does all kinds of wierd things when I play with line breaks.
