Re[4]: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya

At 4:33:02 AM on Friday, April 4, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian M. Scott

> From the technical recommendations:

> Make sure that the quotations are properly marked, so that
> one can easily see who wrote what.

> Patrick, your posts and Arnaud's consistently violate this
> recommendation. They're barely tolerable in the first
> instance; once they've been quoted a time or two, they're
> nearly unreadable.
> Brian
> ===============

> I don't appreciate these comments about my posts. I
> usually take time to erase what's unnecessary add the name
> of the precedent poster under his quotation. split my
> answer in segments. In order to enhance readibility.

> I constantly receive mails with erratic formatting :
> not in plain text, letters too big, top-posting, etc.
> Sometimes I can't even see where the new text might be.

> So I suggest you first deal with major breachers
> before you care about me.

You *are* one of the two major violators of this guideline;
Patrick is the other. You are the only two regular posters
who consistently fail to quote properly. The post above is
an example: if your mail client were configured properly,
you would now see *two* quote chevrons before the lines that
I wrote to Patrick, like this:

>> From the technical recommendations:

NOT like this, as it now appears:

> From the technical recommendations:

This makes it look as if *you* wrote that line.

As I said to Patrick: if you don't know how to configure
your mail client, I'm sure that someone here will know how
to help.

Brian M. Scott
Moderator