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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "fournet.arnaud" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:39 AM
Subject: 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
>

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No nibbles on that line yet, Brian.


Patrick

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