e-mail – more difficult than it looks – it must be…
Because so many people keep messing it up. I know, I know – the last thing
you need is a rant on "in the old days of the net" but that’s just
what your in for and you might as well just take your medicine.
Of course, if you need something to do while I yell you can always go off and
surf the pretty girls.
It’s fairly obvious that e-mail
is one of the best things of the net and that e-mail
discussion lists are more popular than ever right now, in many cases replacing
the Usenet
system.. All this discussion is wonderful, and it leads to a specific problem…
keeping track of who said what to whom.
So I don’t care what you do, or how, but change the text you are quoting ON
EVERY LINE. Let your e-mail program do it in html (outlook will indent it for
you) or make it bold, or best of all let your software pre-pend a character
to each line! ">" is the usual one, and has a long and happy
history.
This business of putting:
Flard says:
flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard
flard
flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard
flard flard flard
flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard flard
flard
And I respond:
me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me
me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me
me me me me me me me me me me
Is bogus and you will all be first against
the wall when the revolution comes.
I am outta here. Gonna go to Hellfire
and relax for a change.