[Elecraft] Quoted text

[Paul Bruneau]

On Apr 14, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Dan Barker wrote:

> The reason we do our quoting manually is that many list-members are on 
> very
> slow or pay-by-the-kilobit connections, and all 'Crafters on the list 
> are
> supposed to minimize the amount of text quoted.
>
> If I'd just let Outlook quote your note, 3,811 bytes would be appended 
> below
> my sig. and the listserver additions would occur many times over the 
> life of
> a thread. As it is done, only  138 bytes are.
>
> Admittedly, some postings are done more clearly that others<g>.

There were several responses along this line, so let me clarify. I am 
all in favor of trimming the quoted text to an appropriate snippet, 
that was not my point.

The point of my query was that regardless of how much of the quoted 
text is included in the reply, if there is no quote character in front 
of it, it is darn hard to see what is being quoted and what is the 
reply.

Thanks,
PB
K2 #4818 still winding toroids!