16 Apr
2002
16 Apr
'02
5:29 a.m.
I remember my old Blue Wave offline reader would admonish you if the
reply was more than 50% quote. I vary from top to bottom to interleaved
according to the message. The bottom line is whatever's the best to
communicate the message. Altho unlike this, I do prefer top quoting.
Lawrence
At 12:48 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
You did fine. :-) When I see the entire message quoted
(with headers) and no white space between the quoted
text and the new comments, my eyes glaze over.
If there's a relevant passage, quote it, comment on it
and be done with it. If you think for a moment there's a
need to quote the entire previous message, then erase it all
and begin pontificating. Don't do both.
- John
lgwalker(a)mts.net
bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com
From:
John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
Unfortunately, I don't think Winston said
anything
about the inability to format e-mail responses
in conventional style, so we're stuck. "see below, plz."
now induces an immediate "CTRL/D" from my left hand.
Okay, so what is the *preferred* method of replying to classiccmp posts?
Reply at top? Replay at bottom? Or, embedded comments interspersed
throughout the replied-to post? I prefer the latter, more conversational
style . . .