Selective Quoting in Replies
tbudl, I am not very familiar with the concept of selective uoting in replies as I am used to just posting reply at top of message. It seems like a very awkward process. Or is that a normal reaction to someone who is new to doing this? could someone explain how to do this or point me to a place where I can read about it? When I select one part of a message to respond to, I hit F4 and can write a reply, but the rest of the message disappears. Is the answer simply cursoring through the message and leaving a blank line between the quotes and my response? Thanks for helping this novice! -- Best regards, Mary Anne Lynskey mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
Hello Mary, On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 8:14:46 PM, you wrote: I am not very familiar with the concept of selective uoting in replies as I am used to just posting reply at top of message. It seems like a very awkward process. Or is that a normal reaction to someone who is new to doing this? I think it is, but in my opinion it is more readable than a answer that you post above the original message (called top quoting). could someone explain how to do this or point me to a place where I can read about it? I do not know a place where you can read about it, but I can explain what selective quoting is. You type a reaction below the text your responding to like I'm doing now. When I select one part of a message to respond to, I hit F4 and can write a reply, but the rest of the message disappears. Is the answer simply cursoring through the message and leaving a blank line between the quotes and my response? Thanks for helping this novice! When you select a text and hit F4, The Bat! will only quote the selected text in the mail. The way that I'm responding to your message is just press answer and the whole text is quoted. Then I delete the parts of the text that are not important, and when I want to respond to a part of the text I just type my remarks below it and move the following text (of your original message down) When you receive some more messages from this list you will see what selective quoting means. It means just leave the text that your responding to in the message as a quote and type your response below it. -- Cheers, Edgar Communicating with TB! v2.01.3, Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Mary, On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:14:46 -0500 your time, you said: MAL ... It seems like a very awkward process. Or is that a normal MAL reaction to someone who is new to doing this? Yes, it takes a little bit more effort than just top posting. However I suspect that you easily slip in to it as you do it more often as you'll appreciate the immediate context of replies. Most of the time you will probably only need to reply to points in a message. A lot of the message isn't usually required to maintain context. You can then simply snip the parts out, like I've done below. ..snip.. MAL When I select one part of a message to respond to, I hit F4 and MAL can write a reply, but the rest of the message disappears. If you want to reply to every line in an email you could hit CTRL + F5 to quote the whole message. You can then simply trim, reply, and reformat as you go. If you want to reply to only a single point in a message you can highlight the text in the message and hit F4 and type your reply underneath the quoted text. MAL Is the answer simply cursoring through the message and leaving a MAL blank line between the quotes and my response? Well yes really, but remember a lot of the time you don't usually need to requote a whole message to maintain context. To reformat a quoted text line or your typed reply line place the cursor anywhere in the block of text and hit ALT + L or if you like your text justified ALT + J. HTH - -- Slán, Simon @ i~n+f~o+w~i+z~a+r~d+.~c+o~.+u~k * PGP Key via Web: http://pgp.infowizard.co.uk/ PGP Key via Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Faffing about with TB! v1.62r on W2K SP4 #1144. Slam Do Squire Wry ¶ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Protect your Privacy with PGP. Comment: KeyID: 0xDF8062C1 Comment: Fingerprint: 40DD 7908 9DF8 634F 1B98 8849 9266 C870 DF80 62C1 iQA/AwUBP7KT95JmyHDfgGLBEQIlYwCgoHkH/VOOf33M62BfJaCqkC5XuIgAn1PZ U5yZQfOZz/VNdDzQfnckvp15 =C2uO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
Hello Mary Anne, on Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:14, you wrote: I am not very familiar with the concept of selective uoting in replies as I am used to just posting reply at top of message. It seems like a very awkward process. Or is that a normal reaction to someone who is new to doing this? I'd say, the latter. *s* could someone explain how to do this or point me to a place where I can read about it? I have the %QUOTES macro in my reply template, so the complete original text appears, when I hit reply. I go through the text from top to bottom, delete what is unnecessary for my reply, and add my answer where it fits. -- Cheers Peter A: Because it reverses the logical flow of information. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
Hi Mary, @12-Nov-2003, 14:14 -0500 (12-Nov 19:14 UK time) Mary Anne Lynskey [MAL] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: MAL I am not very familiar with the concept of selective uoting in MAL replies as I am used to just posting reply at top of message. That can cause a problem where your reply addresses more than one issue from within an original message. It would also prohibit anyone in a group discussion from commenting further once replies become disassociated from an original statement or question. MAL It seems like a very awkward process. Not once you get used to it. In fact, it is a much more natural process, since it better approximates a conversational form. MAL ... could someone explain how to do this or point me to a place MAL where I can read about it? You can read about it in this very reply :-). It's how I am replying to you. MAL When I select one part of a message to respond to, I hit F4 and MAL can write a reply, I actually seldom do this ... MAL but the rest of the message disappears. ... for that exact reason! (unless I only want to comment on a single issue), MAL Is the answer simply cursoring through the message and leaving MAL a blank line between the quotes and my response? Yes. And it works very well indeed. NB: Please do not be tempted to reply with a top post - not even for a thank you. The moderators are already moistening their trout in preparation eg. -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v2.01.26 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 ' pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
Hello Mary, Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 11:14:46 AM, you wrote: MAL When I select one part of a message to respond to, I hit F4 and MAL can write a reply, but the rest of the message disappears. Is the MAL answer simply cursoring through the message and leaving a blank MAL line between the quotes and my response? Thanks for helping this MAL novice! I just hit the Reply icon on the Main toolbar. The entire message will be quoted. Then I work my way down the message, liberally deleting anything I am not going to reply to, and replying to points that I am going to address underneath the quoted block. I keep my replies and quoted blocks separated by a blank line so that I can Alt+L any quoted blocks so that they flow to the line length that I have selected. -- Best regards, Scottmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BayesIt! 0.4gm Using The Bat! 2.01.3 under Windows 98 4.10 Build A pgp key: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
Hello, Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 9:14:46 PM, you wrote: MAL could someone explain how to do this or point me to a place where I MAL can read about it? Copy the text you want to quote, and right click in the message editor, click Paste as Quotation (Alt + Ins). -- Best regards, Zeynelmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v2.01.26 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Selective Quoting in Replies
Hallo Mary Anne, On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:14:46 -0500GMT (12-11-03, 20:14 +0100, where I live), you wrote: MAL I am not very familiar with the concept of selective uoting in MAL replies as I am used to just posting reply at top of message. It MAL seems like a very awkward process. Or is that a normal reaction MAL to someone who is new to doing this? I guess it's normal that it takes some time to get used to it. All bad habits are hard to shake. (Just like smoking) As I was taught to quote sparsely when I started mailing I can't speak from my own experience. MAL When I select one part of a message to respond to, I hit F4 and can MAL write a reply, but the rest of the message disappears. Yep, that's why it's called 'selective quoting', you select only the part you want to reply to. MAL Is the answer simply cursoring through the message and leaving a MAL blank line between the quotes and my response? When you want to reply to several parts of the message, you don't use F4, but you quote the whole message. (Just like I did, in this message.) You delete the irrelevant parts and type your reply beneath the actual questions. A blank line between quotes and response enhances the readability, so it's something I'm doing all of the time. My first mail program did it automatically, so you could say that it's behaviour I grew in to. ;-) -- Groetjes, Roelof Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
