From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56662
Date: 2008-04-04
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "fournet.arnaud" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] 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
>
>