On 2/21/07, Michael Brailsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You space wrapping nazis. Just read the freaking email in whatever form it comes, instead of forcing people to accept your way of doing things. Unless of course, the email comes in HTML format, THEN we can start lynching those people.
The problem isn't with reading the mail, it's with replying. It has the tendency to result in some clients breaking up lines into 10 word and 2 word line pairs when quoting already quoted emails, and makes visually reading quoted emails near impossible to tell what's quoted once, and what's quoted twice making it hard to tell who said what. On top of that, it should be obvious from this email, that my current client only felt one quote marker was needed for your entire paragraph, which also makes it slightly hard to tell where the quote ends and my text begins. This is ten times worse when it comes to people who love to leave replies on the very next line after a quote rather than using some space (at least Gmail color codes quoted text, or this would be hell for some lists I am required to deal with stuff like this for work). On a list where people love to double quote (like you just barely did) rather than trimming to the relevant subject, it's more about having some courtesy. I guess I forget that this list isn't really a "professional discussion" list, thanks for being a dick about it. It is listed in the Netiquette under Usenet [1], though I believe the same rules and reasons apply to email on mailing lists. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette Bryan Petty /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
