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A request concerning replies.

A request concerning replies.

2001-08-20 by Mark Carpenter

Hello all,

I am finding it rather difficult to read many of the messages in the 
digests I receive. May I suggest something that would help make the 
messages more readable? The biggest help would probably be quoting only the 
parts of the messages you need to make it clear what you are responding to. 
For example.

Original e-mail:
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What inks are you using? What printer? Have you seen the movie "Attack of 
the Killer Duck-billed Platypuses?" I thought it was great, especially part 
where yadda, yadda, yadda.
It's my favorite movie. (goes on for three paragraphs about Natalie Coleman.)

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Reply:
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 >What inks are you using? What printer?

I'm using Piezo in an 1160. Finally, no guesswork!

 >Have you seen the movie "Attack of the Killer Duck-billed Platypuses?" 
(remainder cut out)

Yes. And now my family won't let me have a say in what we see when we go 
out. BTW, isn't this off topic?

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I don't mean to tweak any feathers. I know the default for most e-mail 
programs now is to quote everything. It only take a moment to clean things 
up. I would guess that over half of the bandwidth in some of the digests 
are used up by repeated messages, some several messages deep.

Thanks,
Mark

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