Email formatting / replies / quoting / limits (was Re: lookup problem)

[John Esak]

You would comment... You, who are just about the most careful and consistent
at doing these right.  Grump.

J

P.S. I don't mind the hunting for interspersed comments.... It is just
noisy, time consuming and a pain in the well hold on, did I just say I don't
mind all that... :-)  I do, I do. Mind.  It is not going to make me stop
reading the list whether people intersperse or top post... I can handle
it... I have a co processor like brain.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 4:16 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Email formatting / replies / quoting / limits (was 
> Re: lookup problem)
> 
> On 8/6/2010 3:33 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010, John Esak wrote:
> >> This message is even more scattered than the first one... 
> Does anyone know
> >> what is adding the "extra lines" everywhere?
> >
> > Mea Culpa:
> >
> > I probably shouldn't have approved the overlong message when it
> > came up for moderation.  It didn't make much sense to me, but I
> > will plead fatigure as I had just arrived at home after playing
> > duplicate bridge with my wife (her first time at duplicate).
> >
> > In the future, I will *NOT* approve anything over 40K which is
> > about 20 pages of text at 2K/page.
> 
> Well, despite it's vertical stretching, the e-mail (after 
> HTML strippage) 
> was "only" 21K.  (The HTML part was 63K on its own, however.)
> 
> Typically, the problem with text-only e-mails being too long 
> is improper (or 
> entire lack of) snipping of the quoted message.  Very rarely 
> is it necessary 
> to include the entire original message, unless it's a 
> relatively short 
> message to begin with.
> 
> And (sorry, John) my experience is that top posters are 
> typically the worst 
> offenders when it comes to lack of snipping unnecessary parts.
> 
> When properly trimmed, and properly quoted, I find inline 
> replies to be 
> easiest to read.  Not being in John's position, scrolling 
> past quoted text 
> to the new text is simple.  And, if I need to refer to 
> previous messages, I 
> simply look the quoted text immediately above the new text.  
> (And, even if 
> it's not trimmed, as long as it's properly quoted, I still 
> find inline 
> replies best.)
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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