On 10th.September.1999, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote : > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999, Sun JunXu wrote: > >> [...3 quoted mail headers removed...] >> [...5 quoted mailing list footers removed...] > > Errr... sorry if I had to complain now, but the thread becomes horrible: have > you guys ever heard that one should edit _and strip down_ the quotation text > when sending a reply in order to make it readable to the receivers? It's more > than lame to send a four line reply with 3 quoted mail headers and 5 quoted > mailing list footers attached to the message. > > Additionally: it's considered bad practice to write your reply paragraph above > the quotation. So please make yourself a favor and invest[igate] a few minutes > per day more time when writing to mailing lists like this. [snip] > Thanks. I haven't read this list in my mailbox for a couple of weeks, and was just on the point of making the same point/complaint myself. Just in case anyone thinks Ralf might be the only listmember who thinks this, I decided to add my voice anyway - *please* trim unnecessary stuff from quoted messages. I know part of the problem is that many of us are (at work) having to use Micro$oft Outlook, which makes intelligent quoting fairly difficult. It puts the quoted text after the reply which means that (a) inline quoting is tediously manual, (b) lots of folks don't even look at the quoted message in their reply - they don't look past their own signature lines - so they forget the quoted bit is even there. But as Ralf says, it only takes a few minutes of extra effort, and makes the Net a better place. Please try. [Ralf: feel free to moderate this out of the list] Cheers, Nick EDS Healthcare, Bristol, UK ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
