Hey, If you have trouble reading my emails, then don't. I use IMP as an emailer, and I'm no internet english prof. I just try and help people as best I can. If I can. I usually just read the email, and hit reply (all) if I can add some positive input. I understand little things, like not typing with caps lock on as it is refered to as shouting, but I don't have time to make my emails look perfect.
Mike > Your comments are interesting, considered, and informative, but > are very difficult to read given the quoting and followup styles > you've chosen. May I suggest the following style advocated in > the "Email Quoting" section of the Jargon File. > > You should also prefix each quoted line with an appropriate > quote character. A '> ' or '>' for each level of quotation > should be included, e.g.: > > > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing > > > elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet > > > dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. > > > > Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation > > ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea > > commodo consequat. > > > Note also that you should _include_ an attribution line for each > level of quoting in your message, e.g.: > > on Tue, Sep 04, 2001, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) > wrote: > > so that quotes may be attributed to their authors. You should > _exclude_ signature blocks at the end of messages from your > quoted context. > > > If possible, flow text that has been quoted, e.g.: > > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, > > sed diam > > nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna > > aliquam erat > > volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud > > exerci tation > > ...is far harder to read than: > > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, > > sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore > > magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, > > quis nostrud exerci tation > > A good text editor (I use and recommend vim) can do this > automatically. > > > "Email Quoting" from 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. > > Thank you. > > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 > cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.kuro5hin.org > Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! > http://www.freesklyarov.org > Geek for Hire > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html >
