Oh, man! Of all the things I've heard on this list, nothing disturbs me
more than what's below, not even the crap that Kirk Wood regularly spews.
I don't know how many people read mail the way I do, but here's my method.
I use the export feature of Pine to get large volumes of mail and
newsgroup posts into one file. Then, I run a script that deletes all the
nasty headers and, even some long standing tag-lines. It also deletes
lines that begin with a greater-than symbol. That way, I can use a pair
of wireless headphones and do dishes or walk the pupcake. It's a lot like
listening to a talking book or the radio.
Now, since I'm not Jim Stevenson, I realize that I can't expect
anyone to change the format of their email to suit me, so I'll just start
by using Pine's filter function to shit-can messages from senders known to
not put a greater-than symbol at the left margin of quoted text. I do
agree that forwarded messages shouldn't have the marker.
Bill in Denver
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, David Poehlman wrote:
> One thing that annoys me is the > signs in messages, You will notice
> that mine do not have them when I forward directly as below but we
> digress.
