From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 18:58:09 MDT
gts writes
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> > For the sake of my clarity in discussing this I'm going to shuffle
> > the order of some of the response -- I hope people will not object.
>
> I have no problem with that. I sometimes do the same. Also I hope people
> don't take offense when I do not quote and respond to every paragraph.
They sure as hell should not!
> When both parties do so it tends to result in long messy messages
> involving multiple simultaneous disagreements, some of which should
> logically be resolved before others.
Absolutely. I would prefer people even to omit the "<snip>",
whose logical justification is suspect. It would make sense
*only* if, contrary to what you and I have just said, someone
were to reply to *everything* in a previous post.
I do not object to reordering what the original poster
said, if one is 84.134 percent or more certain that the
meaning is not changed.
Quite pleased with the manner in which most people quote
and reply, by the way, I am. Only occasionally does
someone quote an *entire* message for just a one-line
zing or something, or fail to say whose message it is
that's being responded to.
Lee Corbin
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