Re: minor technical request
Steve Carson-Rowland (steve@kirra.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:23:19 +0000
>JASON
>I notice that many subscribers on this group use a quoting system
>that's somewhat different from the one used by most email and news
>readers. Instead of indenting with > symbols, the name of the person
>speaking is put in before each section.
[snip]
>Please consider using standard quoting formats. It'd really help.
>
>TILL
>We discussed this on the list before you subscribed, and many of us thought
>that the >>'s without the name labeling was very confusing. By the time a
>message has been sent and resent and resent and resent, it becomes
>impossible to know who said what. I was one of the proponents of the
>labeling system. My policy is to stop reading a posting when I reach a
>point where I can't tell who is being quoted or who said what. I just don't
>have the time to sit and try to figure out who the different writers were.
>
[snip]
Steve CR:
For my pennysworth.. I follow some threads on talk.origins, which use
the standard indentation. They *do* get very hard to follow, as some
threads last for weeks or months. Also, some Email programs don't do the
indenting 100% and the top line or bottom line loses the indent, etc. It
gets very messy. I find the system here easier to follow, it's just
slightly more time-consuming to do a reply.
--
Steve Carson-Rowland (steve@kirra.demon.co.uk - kirra is one of the best
surfing beaches in the world, it's where I'll soon be @ )
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