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DM schreef:

> wow...lighten up...the only impact not editing your
> emails has is on archive space. These are miniscule
> text files and put minimum stress on bandwidth for any
> email system.   

Which I didn't complain about. So why bring it up?

> I often purposely don't edit my emails...not "borne
> out of laziness" meneertje and not to annoy you, but
> because not everone uses the threading feature in the
> email. IF you put the reply at the top of the email,
> allowing everyone to quickly spot the new info/query,
> and leave the relevant old info down below for easy
> reference, it works just fine. For working with
> disparate email systems and users it's a nice logical
> approach.

Well, no. What you do is quote *relevant* parts of an e-mail, and write 
your comments below that, exactly as I'm doing now. Because people read 
top-down, it's a lot more logical.

It's a thing about context. When you put your reply above the quoted 
text, and all the headers that various mailers and Yahoo groups throw in 
there, the reader has to figure out what particular part of the original 
mail you're referring to. When you edit your posts and leave just the 
relevant parts in, you're still perfectly understandable - after all, 
it's all in context - and the reader doesn't have to sift through tons 
of irrelevant stuff, like the headers I mentioned.

May I also suggest you leave out disparaging phrases since you've 
figured out I'm Dutch? The guidelines I describe had already been long 
established 15 years ago, when I first got access to e-mail. And they 
have been explained to me as well at the time. Rather than dismissing it 
out of hand, study 'netiquette'. It's there for a reason.

- Peter


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