Dragaera

Thoughts about Piro and Krytaan....

Matthew Klahn mklahn at mac.com
Tue Nov 18 16:22:03 PST 2003

On Nov 18, 2003, at 18:15 , David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> Talpianna at aol.com <Talpianna at aol.com> writes on 18 November 2003 at 
> 19:08:57 EST
>> In a message dated 11/18/2003 5:06:02 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>> dd-b at dd-b.net writes:
>>> Use conventional quoting -- prefix the old material with " > ".
>>
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> I just cut and paste.  I don't know how to reset it, and have had no 
>> other
>> complaints.
>
> Most people are more polite than me. :-)
>
> But it really does contribute to making your messages harder to read,
> and threads you participate in harder to read (because later quoting
> of your messages looks *very* confused).
> -- 
> David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b at dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/>
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> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <dragaera.info/>

Not to step in here, where I don't belong, but I'm going to step in 
here where I don't belong in order to reduce the overall number of 
mails that I'm going to have to see about this particular issue. :)

People who use AOL, or Hotmail/Yahoo, etc. may have problems with this 
because they are kinda stuck with HTML mails by default and are not 
computer saavy enough to change them. Unless you wish to screen out 
those people or be willing to educate them as to how to change settings 
to make it easier to read, I guess there's no real point in complaining 
to those people (which might explain the lack of complaints, tal, but 
it may be masking a lot of aggravation). Therefore, I will nicely put 
it out there that either: 1) David looks up how to do this and explains 
it to Tal (off-line is preferred), or 2) Tal looks this up herself and 
changes it. It _does_ make it harder to read mails, and is not isolated 
to Tal: I have this same problem with about 5 other mailers on this 
list who use Yahoo, etc.

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Matthew S. Klahn
Software Architect, CodeTek Studios, Inc.
http://www.codetek.com