On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:14:58 -0500, Tom Polakis wrote:
> Paul Dickson wrote:
>
> This message certainly makes a good case for putting the quoted
> material first, otherwise you have to read the sections backwards in
> order to understand what's going on
>
>
> I sometimes do (but not this time). It's actually very appropriate to put
> the "answer" first when one is trying to get the reader's attention with the
> solution to a problem. Often, people with lives put lengthy e-mail messages
> on the back burner. C'mon, Paul. Jenn comes up with an elegant way for SAC
> to solve an EVAC problem, and you're more concerned about syntax.
>
Yes, and I apologize to Jennifer for singling out her message, but the
message is a very extreme example (and one she's not entirely to blame
for creating) of blindly using the Microsoft templates.
I had to put limits on AZ-Observing to prevent people from attaching 5
line replies to 400 lines of echoed material (which is already part of
the list) and 10 copies of the footer. Otherwise, that list would have
needlessly lengthy messages, which as you said, which would get put on
the back burner.
-Paul