[78-L] Yawn ^

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Jun 29 11:37:34 PDT 2009


> The guidelines cited for email are not in the least out of line.  Far 
> too many people either do nothing at all to set their responses apart 
> from the text they are responding to, or they bury it within a large 
> chunk of other stuff, or they quote a large chunk of unnecessary text - 
> thus making it either annoying or near impossible to find their response 
> or to figure out exactly what they are responding to.
> 
> Many of us gets lots of email.  When I get messages that ask me guess 
> where their response is or what they're responding to I just delete it.
> 
> Its hardly out of line to ask people to delete what isn't necessary, and 
> to something to set their response apart from what someone else has said 
> so that we don't have to guess at who said what.  And its VERY easy to 
> do.  If you aren't going to make your email clear and easy to follow 
> then don't send it.
> 
> -- Ken
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As you can see, I delete all the "fluff" at the bottom and separate my 
reply with a line.

Now what about people who put up toilet rolls facing inwards?

      Julian Vein


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