Message Forum: Re: Different ways to reply to a post.

Re: Different ways to reply to a post.

Posted By: S_E, on host 62.30.192.1
Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001, at 03:21:09
In Reply To: Re: Different ways to reply to a post. posted by Sentry on Friday, February 9, 2001, at 19:46:19:

I'll use whatever seems most appropriate for my reply. What does occasionally bug me is the way in which angle brackets are used. It's much easier to read this...

((Neatly boxed in quote))

My response to the quote.

Than it is to read this...

>Here's some more made-up quoted text, but I'm making it a bit longer to demonstrate my point. This is how text appears when the angle brackets >>are generated automatically and mangled a couple of times by various different browsers and mail programs or whatever.
>
My reponse just looks like the second paragraph of the quoted text, right?

Weirdly, I had to use parentheses instead of angle brackets in the first example, because between the compose window and the message preview the quote got swallowed. I'm not sure why.

S 'fifty mailing lists and this sort of thing starts to matter' E

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Replies To This Message

Re: Different ways to reply to a post. - Paul A. - Mon, 2/12/2001, 19:24:35
Re: Different ways to reply to a post. - Trunks - Sat, 2/10/2001, 06:07:50
- Re: Different ways to reply to a post. - SE - Fri, 2/23/2001, 08:13:27
Re: Different ways to reply to a post. - Travholt - Sat, 2/10/2001, 04:36:56