Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:53:26 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, rob <rob@pythonemproject.com>, "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bottom-quoting (was Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD...) Message-ID: <20020526225326.GB1562@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3CF165D4.A7C8E6F4@mindspring.com> References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.2665.379231.456776@guru.mired.org> <20020526173949.GA230@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.10022.167754.574044@guru.mired.org> <20020526183504.GA472@lpt.ens.fr> <3CF165D4.A7C8E6F4@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on May 26, 2002 at 15:46:44: > > Business letters and other so-called "snail mail" has evolved > certain formate structures for the data contained therein so > that people can operate with certain assumptions, thereby > making their lives easier. Email has done the same, even if > people have been slow to recognize this fact. Funny you should say that. All business-related or official email I receive, without exception -- secretaries, banks, officials, whatever -- uses bottom-quoting. I in turn bottom-quote when I reply to them. That's what they're used to, they operate with that assumption, and it makes their lives easier (as you nicely put it) -- while I'm used to both forms so it doesn't matter to me. (Exception: when I'm replying to a very specific point which is a small part of their long mail, I top-quote that point.) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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