On 27 Jul 2005 at 13:50, Mark Dodge wrote: > This message below is confusing because he quoted from one message two > different posters but it could have looked as if he only quoted the > paragraph with the indents (>) and wrote all of the next two paragraphs,
Could you clarify what you're talking about? What's confusing here? The message seems clear (did other folk have trouble with it???). I *DID* only quote the paragraph with the indents and I *DID* write all of the next two paragraphs... Bill Hatcher's: > On 27 Jul 2005 at 15:53, Bill Hatcher wrote: > > > I much prefer the current message at the TOP with any necessary > > history below it. Very often if someone posts the other way and hasn't > > trimmed his quote judiciously, instead of clicking the scroll button > > to get past the quoted material, I just click the delete button instead. My comments: > And I'm the same way but on the other side: if someone posts something that > starts with a sentence that makes no sense at all and there's no obvious > context within the first few lines, instead of clicking SCROLL to try to > figure out WTH they're talking about, I delete the message. Nothing like > reading "I agree" and having to guess what they agree with, or getting a > message that starts with a URL and having to guess what the URL is about... > > Too many people believe that because THEY can remember what threads are > about, their correspondents may have read hundreds of messages on scores of > different topics before their reply/followup arrives and might well > appreciate some help on figuring out what the topic at hand is.... And then you say: > ... I > think this is worse than having the entire sixteen messages appending to > the top and then a one line answer at the bottom, if it was at the top at > least you do not have to wade thru it all. *WHAT* "is worse..."? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
