on 8/9/02 2:44 AM, Johannes Wolf at mp2100_at_mail-gw.estec.esa.nl wrote:
> In fact if I answer with 4 lines to a thread with 10 lines I already exceed
> the limit because MS Outlook tends to put a header in quotes as well and
> there are a few lines signature in quotes.
As was pointed out by someone else, I believe that almost all email apps
support the 'highlight text to be quoted - hit reply - reply contains only
the highlighted text in quote' feature.
Further, I would urge the entire list to use the convention of two '-'
together on a single line prior to your signature block (as you see below
with mine). This is almost universally recognized by email apps as "don't
include anything below this when quoting a message for a reply".
HOWEVER... There *are* times when the point to be responded to cannot be
captured by simply quoting one or two sentences. For those occasions, it
would be nice to just include a link to the lengthy message and simply state
something like "In response to the comments regarding XYZ, ..." That way,
you achieve a small message size, but folks who maybe come into the middle
of a discussion can still look it up easily. The concept of perhaps putting
the URL for the head of the thread into the message is also interesting.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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