[foxboro] Judicious Quoting (was Re: foxboro Digest V5 #284)

At 04:47 PM 8/23/05 -0400, Rguercio@xxxxxxx wrote:

>I wonder if I could make a small request.  I faithfully read through  the
>freelist several times a week as it is issued.  I find myself having 
>to  scroll
>through a lot of repeat stuff.  Is it possible to avoid some of this  by
>highlighting a small portion (such as I have done above) of what you 
>are  actually
>responding to and then hitting reply?  I am using AOL, so maybe  that 
>is only a
>feature of AOL, but it sure would shorten the amount of useless  text we all
>have to scroll through to find the new and original mailings.   It would also
>cut the size of my archives considerably, which can never  hurt.
>
>While I am at it, several of you issue lengthy corporate policies with each
>communique (especially it seems the latino entries) that I don't need 
>to read
>every time.  Would it be possible to cut out the standard blah-blah-blah  and
>only include a one-liner warning that there is a corporate policy associated
>with your e-mail, and where to find and read that policy if we care to?
>
>I think these two modified practices would really streamline the freelist
>and save time for many professionals each day.  Thanks to all,


Judiciously quoting the relevant part of the e-mail is only good e-mail 
etiquette, and it's easy to do if you use a "nice" e-mail client such 
as I do here. However, at work, I'm saddled with the POS that is 
Outlook, which encourages people to add their part to the top of the 
e-mail in a (reverse) string-of-conversation format. Not that one 
shouldn't try to delete the multiple footers even when sending the 
posting in this fashion.

The legal mumbo-jumbo at the bottom, however redundant, may be added 
automatically by the corporate mail server over which the individual 
poster may not have any control.

I will add an additional request: please post in *plain* text. You can 
see what a mess a posting in HTML can be.

Duc

 
 
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