>To All Of Us:
>
> Am I the only one that is finding all these comments about top -VS-
>bottom filling up their email inbox a little silly.
Possibly, given that the exchange is continuing. ;-)
>Have we gotten to the
>point of the "Point and Click" mentality and unable to resolve text manualy
>as needed in our replies to messages. "Cut and Paste" might take longer but
>it will get past all the shortfalls of the different email programs
>available.
I think that everyone has hir (<-PC meld of 'his' & 'her'; retains
subject/object number consistency) own comfort level between functionality
and ease-of-use. At some point, the technology makes it too onerous to do
the detailed editing and expediency takes over. I miss the simple,
plain-text, keyboard-centric interface of *nix Pine. Anyone know of a Mac
equivalent?
>I have found that either the responses that intermingle with comments
>after the original text or the complete prior message and then a response to
>the message works the best.
Overall, I prefer responses intermingled with text. To me it's just as
difficult to make back-references from post-responses to message body as it
is to make forward-references from pre-responses. I also like to see the
copious use of vertical whitespace - after munging a message through two or
three email clients, it's sometimes difficult to determine where the
citation leaves off and the response begins.
>Why don't we take a vote and have a standard
>way agreed upon. Comments?
The techno-libertarian in me cries out in anguish! Lets not try to
legislate an unenforcable standard. Allow peer pressure to do the job.
Sp00ky
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