Dragaera

warning to newbies

Tue Feb 10 11:21:31 PST 2004

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Noam Izenberg wrote:

@> > In personal e-mail, it's generally less
@> > important than it is on newsgroups and lists -
@>
@> Interleaving is often more useful on personal (informal) e-mail, which
@> is, in fact, more like a conversation than multi-participant list
@> discussions are,
@> and it can get exasperating to have every sentence you wrote appended
@> with a comment (or worse have sentences interrupted in the middle).

I generally find it exasperating only when the person involved has set
their auto-line-break to something greater than 72 characters.

@> > Imagine the movie Memento if this helps.
@>
@> I prefer the I Never Promised You A Rose Garden approach to E-mail.

As long as it's not the David Lynch approach to e-mail...