on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:52:55AM -0800, Rod Roark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Actually I don't much care for that behavior in mail readers. Many > times (like this) I reply at the top of the message (so people don't > have to go scrolling for it), and if my sig immediately follows then > all the rest will be chopped when someone else replies -- whether they > want that or not. > > No big deal, but I'd much rather have to edit out a sig or two, and > have the flexibility of composing a reply as I see fit.
"Email Quoting" from the Jargon File. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html Most netters view an inclusion as a promise that comment on it will immediately follow. The preferred, conversational style looks like this: > relevant excerpt 1 response to excerpt > relevant excerpt 2 response to excerpt > relevant excerpt 3 response to excerpt or for short messages like this: > entire message response to message Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will occasionally see the entire quoted message after the response, like this: response to message > entire message but this practice is strongly deprecated. Nick Moffitt puts this rather more succinctly: A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? It's strongly recommended practice. On lists with high volume, I target my reading (and responses) to those posts which best follow traditional quoting, wrap, trim, attribution, and followup (threading) protocols. To say nothing of using something remotely resembling standard grammer, sPelLInG, and word cased. You're extending your audience by using these. I've explicitly *left* lists at which the majority of users (and/or their tools) break such traditions, or killfiled people who can't seem to grasp these basic concepts where the readership (authorship?) as a whole does have a clue. It's not worth my limited cycles to deal with *your* lack of protocol. Or as I put it: write as if you're asking your reader a favor. Very often you are. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
