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Message no. 1
From: jeremie.bouillon@****.fr (Jérémie_Bouillon)
Subject: [OT] mails
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:45:44 +0200
Jonathan and Jamie Gilmour wrote:
> But to me its not standard.

It may not be the standard to you, but it is for pretty much everyone
else since before the Web. It's quite organic, you answer after someone,
not before.

But yes, the endless September has turned into something quite ugly,
especially with emails.

> text, as this is one of the few things I use this email address for.

Use any decent email program. For example, try Thunderbird. It's free,
it's open source, it's multi platform.
Message no. 2
From: allen.schultz@*****.com (Allen Schultz)
Subject: [OT] mails
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:07:12 -0600
Jeremie:

Not to continue this off topic, but I just want to point out
something. LIke in everything of a dispute, there are two sides/views.
There are a lot of people that want to get to the replied message
right away, and I am assuming that Jon or Jaime is the this kind of
person. There are people that want it in chronological order like
yourself that like the messages after the previous.

My suggestion, is ignore the difference, unless someone has the entire
previously message and not the part they are responding to before any
of his messages. This is especially tiring for those of us that like
to get the reply and see their own long message. Or we all can make a
standard to be included in this list's faq and policies to make
replies like they are in the previous shadowrun books like Jeremie has
said, but to keep only the relevant part of the message responding to.
Jeremie has done that part well, thanks.

Allen

On 7/11/06, Jérémie Bouillon <jeremie.bouillon@****.fr> wrote:
> Jonathan and Jamie Gilmour wrote:
> > But to me its not standard.
> It may not be the standard to you, but it is for pretty much everyone
> else since before the Web. It's quite organic, you answer after someone,
> not before.
Message no. 3
From: swiftone@********.org (Brett Sanger)
Subject: [OT] mails
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:12:33 -0400
On 7/14/06, Allen Schultz <allen.schultz@*****.com> wrote:
> Or we all can make a
> standard to be included in this list's faq and policies

That's called irony, that is.

--
Brett Sanger / SwiftOne
swiftone@********.org
Message no. 4
From: weberm@*******.net (Michael Weber)
Subject: [OT] mails
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:34:20 -0400
"Allen Schultz" <allen.schultz@*****.com> wrote:

>My suggestion, is ignore the difference, unless someone has the entire
>previously message and not the part they are responding to before any
>of his messages. This is especially tiring for those of us that like
>to get the reply and see their own long message.

That is why one usually trims the quoted material in his followup message.

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