[PRCo] Re: E-mail etiquette

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Fri Nov 23 13:11:40 EST 2001


On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Jim Holland wrote:

> 	Additionally, I try to make the quotes extremely clear.   The email
> program will not put an arrow by the most recent name in a quote so
> that means that, if there are multiple quotes from various senders,
> there will be one less arrow by the name than by the text it
> represents.   I add the extra arrow, take out extra text, and remove
> all arrows between lines, and all spaces between arrows.

Adding the extra arrow can often lead to misattribution. It's deliberately
not there:-)

But we should really avoid going down this path on the list anyhow; This
is totally 100% outside the purpose of the list. Meta-discussion sucks:-)

-D






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