Quoting

Thomas Stivers stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
Sat Jul 30 10:07:59 EDT 2005


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On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:59:23 AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Dear Christian:
> 
> If you have a problem with the way email is quoted (or maybe not quoted)
> on this list by people responding, why not explain yourself. Pointing us
> to some obscure web site which purports to publish the word of God on
> quoting is not going to get very far here, I think. I know it isn't
> going to with me.

Oh for the love of god, we're not going to have one of these rediculous
top vs bottom vs inline quoting arguments on this list too. If you
really feel that getting into a discussion about this is necessary just
google for top posting and you can read many gigabytes of debate.

> By the way, we're aware that our practices in quoting are not those
> commonly practiced on most lists. We tend to prefer it that way, and we
> certainly do have our reasons for it.

Thanks, I've been wondering how *we* felt.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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