Making replies

[Gary Beasley <beasleyglb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
>
>> On 16 Nov 98 at 17:49, Gary Beasley wrote:
>>
>> > This group has some very invigorating discussion and I love it but would
>> > certain  contributors research a bit on the editing functions inherent in
>> > your mail readers? It would make the replies much more coherent if you
>> > didn't include the entire message verbatim with a line or two of reply
>> > front or back.
>>
>> Of which the reply on top is the worst of the two....making it near
>> impossible for the next person to reply....
>
>Hmm, is the reply on top a violation of netiquette?  I generally do it that
>way for two reasons.  One, if I am following a thread, I have seen the quotes
>several times already and hate scrolling through them (oh, oh, my
>carpal-tunnel is acting up again!).  Two, is that window widths seem to
vary a
>great deal, so that quotes get wrapped oddly and it can be difficult to
>separate the quote from the reply.
>
All the more reason to be deleting fluff from your replies. Also be sure to
kill all the footers that get added on over and over again. 
Leaving all the fluff in place makes it look like you are talking in a
noisy room, so quieting things down is a godsend.
Gary Beasley
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