[rescue] cheapness..

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Shawn, start by CUTTING all the crap from the letters and keep away from
doing like below, keeping old "blah blah wrote", empty lines, and very
very especially the bottom tags. If you trim it down and keep the last
quoted block, you should be all set. If it's a deep discussion, keep the
2nd and (at the most) the 3rd quote.

Cutting away crap from quotings really helps alot and keeps the pace up.
Nevertheless, you don't need to scroll down a couple of times.
And no, never ever ever top-post like I'm doing now. For some fsck'ed-up
reason, Mickeysoft has this 'feature' per default in LookOut.
It's very handy to read 2-3 lines of quoted text in the beginning, to
see what-on-earth people are talking about and what the poster is
commenting.


Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 
> Kris Kirby wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> >
> >>(I still have a windows box here, but it only does word/excel/outlook)
> >>
> >>
> >                                                                ^^^^^^^
> >
> >You have my deepest sympathies. I tried like crazy to make LookOut be
> >sane, but it countered every time. LookOut encourages bad email habits...
> >like top-posting.
> >
> >--
> >Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> ><kris at nospam.catonic.net>   | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL.
> >-------------------------------------------------------
> >"Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
> >_______________________________________________
> >rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> >
> >
> I dont' really see why top-posting is bad. I prefer it, it saves me from
> havign to scroll down to read the message. Is it really that big of a deal?
> 
> I used Outlook up until last week, now I'm using Mozilla and it defualts
> to bottom posting and I am too lazy to hit Ctrl-home.


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