[Wittrs] Quoting Policy

From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:09:27 -0800 (PST)
... below is a mail I sent to a Wittrs member regarding quoting the other 
person's message. He had sent a message to the list that did not edit the other 
person's message, but he did so through the message board, like so: 
http://seanwilson.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=3308&S=dae7a4926c9f1c8a38276fb2d346a273#msg_3308  ;

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... It's not a problem the way you did it. You sent it from the message board 
and had the other person's message in a special block. That's ok. I had 
originally thought you sent the message by email. The email version of it 
doesn't (obviously) contain a "special block." Instead, you get these ">" 
characters. When people send messages by email, they get piped to the message 
board. Unfortunately, the ">" characters then make the thread look ridiculous 
(hard to read). And so I try to remind our email posters to trim the other 
person's message to reduce the amount of ">" in the discussion board threads. 
It's a nuisance for people who read from the board. 

Anyway, bottom line: there is no quoting limitation on messages sent FROM THE 
BOARD to the list, where the old message is blocked off on the board (the way 
you did). There is a quoting limitation for messages sent FROM EMAIL to the 
list (and consequently the board). This limitation simply says: trim what you 
do not need. 

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Let me now add one more thing. If the message you are quoting from on the board 
has the "telephone-conversation format" that I so dearly hate -- having all 
sorts of ">" in the message -- there WOULD be a need to trim the same as for 
email, for obvious reasons.  

Regards and thanks

Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Professor
Wright State University
Personal Website: http://seanwilson.org
SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860
Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html 



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