I am very glad I didn't have to pay by the byte in order to read the below message. (Smile) I'll say no more on that subject.
Does anyone know of a way to sort Email, by anything other than date, when reading it with the BN? I tend to doubt it, it appears to be nowhere in the manual or Help system, but it never hurts to ask, does it? Thanks for any help. Sarah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ann Parsons Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:00 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] message lay-out. Hi all, When quotingmessages, it is best to either do one of two things. One, do not quote at all, paraphrase the previous message. Or, two, quote a few lines of the message, either at top or bottom to cue folks as to what's going on. What I hate, above everything else are people who put their message at the top of an email, then they leave the whole message below, the whole message, including headers and footers. Sometimes there are four or five messages piggybacked onto a one or two line response at the top. This is lazy, selfish, inconsiderate and in my mind boorish! There are people on email lists, especially those in developing countries who have to pay by the byte or by the minute for their online time! People in Australia do this too! The more quoted garbage you leave in your messages the more bytes these people have to download; more time, more bytes. Maybe if you guys were charged by the byte or by the minute you'd quit over-quoting!! Over-quoting makes the archives of a list like this, especially a list like this impossible to search because you're having to wade through tons of garbage to find what you want. It doesn't matter to me whether the quoted text is at the top or the bottom so long as it is short, sweet, and actually pertains to the comments made! As one of my friends says, "Now, I'll get off my soap box. You know, we really do need a different kind of soap!" Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
