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Quoting in Emails?
Shanes asks: "I want to know how slashdot readers feel about the
IMO ever worse quoting habits of people writing mails. When I started
writing emails to friends and colleagues over 10 years ago I and
everyone else quickly learned how
to quote. These days most of the bytes in my inbox are "Original Message" quotes that
Outlook people always include at the end of every mail. Doesn't anyone care about sending well
edited mails anymore?" I have a simple rule, if I can't read it
without editing it first, it's probably not worth my time. Do any
of you get frustrated by the formatting of email in your inbox?
Sure, if your emails are only one sentence long this method works great but if your replying to mutliple questions/points/etc, quoting parts and replying to each works much better.
Judging by the use of quotes here, most slashdot readers agree with me.
2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion.
Sure, if your only interacting if one other person, but what if two people reply to you at the same time?
2) I can archive a single mail and have saved the whole discussion. Do I work with you? If so, let me know. I would have lots of fun editing the older portions of quoted text (I'm sure you don't read the full history of every message), rendering your single-message archive humorously useless! (or, if you get on my bad side, I could subtly alter the history of our conversation so that blame for project failure falls squarely on your shoulders...) Single message archiving only works if you can trust the person you're conversing with. That's fairly rare in a business environment.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
...was to get answers to obscure questions.
What on earth is a little bitchfest doing here? There isn't even anything to respond to in the question (besides "yes, I do quote properly" or "no, I don't quote properly.")
- A.P.
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-----Original Message-----
From: cliff@slashdot.org
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:45:01 +0000
Subject: Quoting in Emails?
Shanes asks: "I want to know how slashdot readers feel about the IMO
ever worse quoting habits of people writing mails. When I started writing
emails to friends and colleagues over 10 years ago I and everyone else
quickly learned how to quote. These days most of the bytes in my inbox are
"Original Message" quotes that Outlook people always include at the end of
every mail. Doesn't anyone care about sending well edited mails
anymore?" I have a simple rule, if I can't read it without editing it
first, it's probably not worth my time. Do any of you get frustrated by
the formatting of email in your inbox?
Liberty in your lifetime