[R-390] Quotes, and Quotes..etc.

[Jim Shorney]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:07:34 -0400, peuhs at bellsouth.net wrote:

>it occured to me that I should have commented on the problem really
> of most interest to Chaz in his posting...the continuous repeat of
> prev. posts by subsiquent posters...and I for one am in partial 
> agreement on that point..I skip a lot of it...


It's generally considered good "netiquette" to prune quoted text to the
minimum necessary to clarify your point:

http://earlydues.usanethosting.com/ieel/netiquette.htm#quote
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html

In practice, getting people to do this is like herding cats. I rarely bother
to try anymore.


-Jim (my yearly post, back to lurking)



-- 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
http://www.spamfaq.net/terminology.shtml#topposting
http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html