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From: rob patt (no email)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2006 - 12:33:44 EDT
The at&t/ Yahoo! mail , also puts the vertical bar on left side. The Re:Subject line should keep the context of the subject coherent. In some email systems the size of the email can become critical, if you where world-cruising or on a system where bandwidth and bitrate is limited. An example is my brother's email box will be accessed via an Inmarsat satellite uplink sponsored by i-Linx. The system uses RBGAN, Regional Broadband Global Area Network, about once every three days.
So for that reason I 'edit' by deleteing all of the following part of the email.
It is unusal, "to answer at the bottom" as it requires scrolling through all of the tread to reach the new information.
I can not see what the prohbition about OE ( Outlook Express, some times called Look Out Express) would be.
It is amazeing that you picked up on my thought that I am having a conversation with myself!
"Rosalie B." <> wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:19:40 -0400, you wrote:
>Definitely. In HTML versions Outlook Express is putting a vertical bar on the "quitation"
>Sometimes I insert:
>"sucandsuch sez:"
>If the > was not inserted, or was too long.
I would not ever use OE nor is HTML appropriate here - only text is
allowed.
>Since I don't have the time to read EVERY conversation, it becomes a PITA to follow the thread back.
>Also, it is really better convention to have the reply on top of the message instead of the bottom.
>That way people don't have to scroll down all the way to see what the person is saying, which, sometimes, is nothing because they accidentally hit the sen button.
No that is not a generally accepted practice - that's only come about
recently because some email programs do it that way. The accepted way
to do it (although as you point out, not necessarily the most
convenient especially if people don't edit the preceding post
appropriately) is to answer at the bottom or inline.
>These are just generally accepted practices of e-mail conversations, whihc make a list more pleasent
>Ahmet
>www.sailnomad.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: cirejay
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:56 AM
> Subject: [world-cruising] Maintaining convention in replies
>
>
> If one eliminates or fails to insert the conventional '>' it looks as
> though one is having a conversation with oneself. In a short post it
> might still work but not so in one that goes on.
>
> I, for one, like to know who said what.
>
> Thanks all
>
> eric S/V Nebaras
>
>
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