On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
[snip]
> From "Email Quotes" in the Jargon File:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html
>
> Most netters view an inclusion as a promise that comment on it will
> immediately follow. The preferred, conversational style looks like
> this,
> > relevant excerpt 1
> response to excerpt
> > relevant excerpt 2
> response to excerpt
> > relevant excerpt 3
> response to excerpt
>
> or for short messages like this:
> > entire message
> response to message
>
> Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will
> occasionally see the entire quoted message after the response, like
> this
> response to message
> > entire message
>
> but this practice is strongly deprecated.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hell does that mean?
Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say...
dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2.
DEPRECIATE
I "strongly mildly dissapprove" of that quoting convention! Huh?
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
