On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:39:55AM -0400, Jerry Schwartz wrote: > If we object to the way a person quotes, replies, whatever, wouldn’t it make > sense to reply off-list? No, because those objections also serve as reminder as well as reference for everyone else. Usually, and in the past, those objections were made in a clause while replying to the thread topic. But as of lately the quality of threads, when it comes to quoting and replying has declined drasttically, and some of us felt the necessity to remind people about the rules of this mailing list in a more verbose and public way. Kind Regards, Michael -- Michael Klier www: http://www.chimeric.de jabber: chi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx key: http://downloads.chimeric.de/chi.asc key-id: 0x8308F551