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Rhonda Hunt-Conklin wrote:
> 
> It's frustrating to have to read the same post three
> or four times again because you didn't know the
> difference.  It also confuses things.  If you  copy
> and paste someone else's words without distinguishing,

Just so you know it's not just one person, let me say it's also
frustrating for me, to the point where I'll just skip past your messages
because it's too hard to figure out.

And as has been said, it makes it harder to tell who said things - for
example, the above was not written by you, but it *looks* like it was.

> original person. You don't have to use the less than
> sign.   Most e-mail clients have something set up

This is the universally preferred way - or if you must be different, most
email programs (not web-based mail, tho, in general) let you use a
different character.  So if you'd rather have a '#' or a '!' or something
else, you can do that too.

> you just set it to.  Sometimes you see those little
> blue lines  going vertically down the page to seperate
> pasted text--or an italicized font.  I just mean it
> doesn't really matter (to most people) what you use to
> distinguish it, just as long as you do it.

Well, it kinda does.  If I may be geeky for a minute, a lot of people on
this list don't use funky newreaders like Netscape Mail or Outlook
Express.  They use <gasp> text based readers like elm, pine, or mutt.  I
myself use mutt at work, not because I can't use Netscape, but 'cuz I just
like it better.

Anyway, these programs do not do HTML like what OE does with those little
blue lines, so it causes problems.

> ~I got an email from someone on this list who
> suggested that I use something like quote marks, for
> example. I have been trying to do that ever since. I
> can't seem to get it "right".

Again, I'd have to recommend against this.  For example, if I were to only
want to quote a small part of what you wrote, I may not get the quotes. 
And what happens when you get several levels of replies going?  Double
quotes?  Triple Quotes?  Hextuple quotes?

So if I may just make a general request to all people who use email - use
the '>' character method (or some similar character).  It's the most
all-around, general purpose, and most effective method.

To help - Rhonda, I notice you have a Yahoo address.  If you actually post
from Yahoo, just go into "Options" and click on "Mail preferences".  Down
at the bottom should be an option asking you about "Replying".  Just
choose "include full message" and it *should* put the little ">"s in for
you.

Or, if you don't like to use the web-based email like me, I have check my
Yahoo mail from Netscape Mail (you can do this with Outlook Express too). 
Just set up an email accout with the Yahoo email address you already have,
set the POP server to "pop.mail.yahoo.com" and the smtp server to
"smtp.mail.yahoo.com".  Then go to Yahoo Mail, into Options, click on "POP
mail and forwarding", and check the "Web and pop access".  Then you can
download your Yahoo mail into Netscape or OE, yet still view it online if
you want to.

Ok, enough geeky primers.  But seriously, if anyone has any questions
about this sort of thing, I'd be more than happy to answer them off list.

G'night.

Troy
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