At 3:11 PM EDT on May 30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent off:
> Quoting our friend --> Rejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > ++ 30/05/99 11:33 -0400 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > >Frankly my rationaile is that quite often, inexperienced users will
> > >quote the entire message and often much unrelated (to the point at
> > >hand) text from previous messages. So...
> >
That's why the most important thing is to use "-- " as the signature
delimiter so that signatures on messages that get quoted and passed on
don't also get quoted and accumulate. Many people have their editor
set to delete everything after the "-- " when quoting a message, even
people who don't understand their editor well enough to trim things
themselves. I see that you now use the proper delimiter, thanks.
As far as the 4 line McQ limit, I often go over myself, because some
good quotes happen to be long. But your "superfast connection"
argument is specious. Please remember that when you post to a mailing
list each line is multiplied and sent out to zillions of people from
the list's server. Newsgroups are a somewhat more efficient
medium...in fact there's one that would be perfect for this
discussion: alt.fan.warlord
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