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| Subject: | Quoting Messages |  |
| Date: | Apr 13, 2001 |
| From: | Paul A. Owen | |
Keep quoted text to a minimum. When quoting a previous post, edit out
the non-relevant parts of the message. Remove salutations and
signatures. A good rule of thumb is, there should not be more quoted
text than new text.
Another special case is EXTREME over-quoting. If you post a very brief
reply to a very long message, and you quote the entire message, your
message may be cancelled.
If you include quoted text in your message, be considerate and clean up
the margins and line breaks in the quoted material. Quoted text is
typically preceded by a character indicating that it is quoted, and this
additional character increases the line length. The longer line length
can cause the message editor to re-parse the line and insert new line
breaks that conflict with the existing line breaks.
Thanks,
Paul. |
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