Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 4 August 2000 at 10:02:54 -0400
> I beg you to cite the place where this list abides by these "Age-old
> standards".
> I've cited some standards about mailing lists to people before -- but
> usually along the lines of "don't quote 100 lines and give only 1 of your
> own" or "don't use 10 line signatures". I don't complain about whether my
> mail reader is only intelligent enough to recognise "-- " as a leader to a
> signature instead of "--" or "- Michael" ...
Signature is pretty well-defined, and "-- " is the delimiter. Stuff
that uses other delimiters breaks all sorts of archiving and reply
software.
> That, and I much prefer to put
> my statements above the quoted text if my statement deals with the entirety
> of the comment (not just segments, as yours was), so that anyone following
> the list can quickly read what I have to say without scrolling.
I wish you wouldn't. When I then respond to various paragraphs of
your text, the resulting sequence is very confusing -- or would be if
I didn't take the trouble to reorder your message first.
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