Just so. I always put my comments at the top for that reason. Then anyone who need not read the source message does not have to do this. Karen On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Glenn at home wrote: > Also, for anyone else who might not like quoting, if the quoting occurs > after the message, then it is not a problem for anyone. I also don't like > the quoting at the top, because most of the time I don't want to read > through it, but it is nice to have it below. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen at shellworld.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:19 AM > Subject: Re: Quoting > > > Lorenzo, > With all due respect, this may not be true. People are joining all the > time, and even those here are searching the archives when looking for > something. Sometimes a thread shifts and the first part of it or the > source question is no longer clear. > Therefore at least in a information based list like this repeating that > message both gives readers a chance to follow the discussion, and may > even save time in having a topic repeated. > Does this make sense? > Karen > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Sorry. I don't quote unless I absolutely have to. I feel that quoting >> wastes the reader's time since he/she has already read the same message >> once, twice or even 5 times already. Why should I add to that problem? >> >> Lorenzo >> - -- >> - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >> Version: 3.12 >> GCS d- s:+ a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W++ N o K- w--- >> O M V- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5+ X+ R tv-- b++ DI-- D+ >> G e* h---- r+++ y+++ >> - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFC7GycG9IpekrhBfIRAvA7AJ9zxbrRmI7aHxBuPXZgpQuiveTonACgmAOj >> nedF/D8UBBiexS5igbHNObM= >> =O9eN >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
