[pchelpers] quoting politely

Hi Arlene

Ar19102@xxxxxxx wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 8/27/2006 3:10:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> Ekhart.GEORGI@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> You  still don't have the quote function turned on. Please mark all 
> quoted text  and remove any unnecessary quoted text.
> 
> 
> Ekhart, I see another post from you entitled "re:Arlene".  I am not an  
> idiot. I know a bit about my pc and using it.  I am so sorry you feel this  
> way.  I 

That was a private mail to you and another list member discussing your 
list behavior, of which i sent a copy to the list manager and Scott 
because he also was concerned by and about your list behavior. It was 
not a list posting, it did not say that you are an idiot, and it did not 
say that you don't know how to use your PC. On the contrary, I said that 
you don't apply even simple advice offered by anyone on the list 
*despite* being computer savvy enough.

> AM using the AOL quote as it is built into AOL.  Does not the  above 
> paragraph show you what I am quoting?  I do not understand you  Ekhart.  

Your messages quote old text but don't show what part is a quote. That 
makes everyone on the list have to read all the quoted text and the new 
text and spend time trying to figure out who wrote what. The only time 
people want to read quoted text is if they don't understand the answer. 
It's senseless being forced to continually read bits of or entire old 
messages again and again.

In the above message, the quote was short, so it was no big deal, but 
many times this habit wastes a lot of time of a lot of people. If this 
is the default setting in AOL, it is additional proof of how bad that 
program and company are. In all other email programs, the default 
setting is that when you hit the Reply button, all quoted text is 
preceded by > signs in front of every line of quoted text. This is then 
shown that way in the recipient's email program or often as a solid bar 
going down the left margin.

I looked for help in AOL's online help file, but it's uncommonly stupid 
and badly written. Hopefully there is a help file *in* your program that 
is better than the online one. The following page is the only one i 
found talking about quoting in email, and it doesn't say if the quoted 
text is only quoted or also marked as quoted:
http://help.aol.com/AIMhelp/dynamickc.do?externalId=http--helpchannelsaolcom-kjumpadparticleId219283&sliceId=&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=http--helpchannelsaolcom-kjumpadparticleId219283

I hope this has cleared everything up, and if the AOL instructions above 
don't mark quoted text as quoted, i'm very sorry that i thought your not 
changing your quote settings was proof that you didn't think it was 
important to not waste other people's time. Please ask AOL for help or 
better yet, switch to any other company on the planet. I have never 
heard of any company that is so downright stupid and sloppy and 
uninterested in following standards and preventing online chaos etc. I 
just looked at the Wikipedia article on AOL and saw that PC World has 
declared it the worst tech product of all time! Give yourself and 
everyone else a break, Arlene, and don't make life hard by staying with 
such a bad company that doesn't even try to improve.



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