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Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1stAmendment?
From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:17:45 -0400 (EDT)
[A friend is] blind and is saying nothing <insert stronger expression for annoys him more> than having to search for inserted comments in the middle of an email that is part of a thread he's allready familar with.
This is a good reason to use standard quoting: it makes it possible for software to strip out quoted material for him. There is a standard quoting style, and it's to use > for first-level quotes, >> for second, etc. (I know of no standard for quoting per se, but RFC3676 section 4.5 is an example of standardization of > quoting.)
I tend to agree with him that it is indeed more comfortable and faster even if you're not handicapped.
Sometimes. If it "is part of a thread [you are] [already] familiar with". Quotes are there to help those who *don't* happen to have wetware buffers big enough to save all live threads in enough detail to deal with new messages in any of them. I have a better memory for such things than many people and even I am glad for quotes - *short* *relevant* quotes - when reading replies. However, that bears on *whether* to quote replied-to material, not *how* to if you're going to. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents-montreal org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? Nick FitzGerald (Jul 20)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? der Mouse (Jul 21)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 19)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? Richard M. Smith (Jul 19)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 19)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? William Lefkovics (Jul 19)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment? William Lefkovics (Jul 19)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1stAmendment? Toralv_Dirro (Jul 19)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1stAmendment? der Mouse (Jul 20)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand onthe 1stAmendment? Toralv_Dirro (Jul 21)
- Re: Where does the Republican Party stand onthe 1stAmendment? Nick FitzGerald (Jul 21)
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