Re: Annoying Network Problem
Hey,
If you have trouble reading my emails, then don't.
I use IMP as an emailer, and I'm no internet english prof.
I just try and help people as best I can. If I can.
I usually just read the email, and hit reply (all) if I can add
some positive input. I understand little things, like not typing
with caps lock on as it is refered to as shouting, but I don't have
time to make my emails look perfect.
Mike
> Your comments are interesting, considered, and informative, but
> are very difficult to read given the quoting and followup styles
> you've chosen. May I suggest the following style advocated in
> the "Email Quoting" section of the Jargon File.
>
> You should also prefix each quoted line with an appropriate
> quote character. A '> ' or '>' for each level of quotation
> should be included, e.g.:
>
> > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing
> > > elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet
> > > dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.
> >
> > Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation
> > ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea
> > commodo consequat.
>
>
> Note also that you should _include_ an attribution line for each
> level of quoting in your message, e.g.:
>
> on Tue, Sep 04, 2001, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com)
> wrote:
>
> so that quotes may be attributed to their authors. You should
> _exclude_ signature blocks at the end of messages from your
> quoted context.
>
>
> If possible, flow text that has been quoted, e.g.:
>
> > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,
> > sed diam
> > nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna
> > aliquam erat
> > volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
> > exerci tation
>
> ...is far harder to read than:
>
> > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,
> > sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore
> > magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam,
> > quis nostrud exerci tation
>
> A good text editor (I use and recommend vim) can do this
> automatically.
>
>
> "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.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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>
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