opencard-digest wrote on 8/1/00 8:33 PM:
>Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:21:49 +0100
>From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: OODL: Email Quoting
>
>>Adrian: In my reading of the list archives I have noticed that back in
>>May I suggested that we adopt Alain's method of quoting as a standard
>>guidline in our discussions. That is that we prepend each paragraph with
>>the name of the person who wrote it (like for this message). The text
>>which is being quoted has a > character before each line.
>>
>>Adrian: For a while we followed this guidline and I notice that the
>>archives are *much* easier to read during this time. Could we perhaps
>>try and go back to using this system?
>
>STOP!!!
>
>Uli: Not the way Alain does it, please. At least prepend ">" before them, too.
>If a person replies to a message and quotes text where another quoted him,
>current and quoted comments can be mixed up. E.g. in "old-style" quoting:
Adrian: Ahem, I'll quote myself...
>> Adrian: The text which is being quoted has a > character before each line.
Adrian: I agree with you. Leaving out the > dramatically increases the
amount of time it takes me to skim a message in the archive, and when I
first read it. (Anthony: Especially since vim so nicely colours things
for me)
>Uli: I said it back then already, but I guess it got lost so I'll dedicate a
>whole post to it.
Adrian: Nope, it's all there in the archive.
