Peter,
Anton was responding to your message, which was ambiguous.
Most people thought you were complaining about the practice of including
your prior mail in the body of the new message.
It wasn't clear to most readers that you were complaining about your address
being on the to-list in addition to the qalam list.
tex
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From:
qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
qalam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Peter T. Daniels
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:27 AM
To:
qalam@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: FW: [M_L] Re: Languages with writing systems?
Because I was offered exactly two options with my new DSL service in April:
either use something from Microsoft, or use Verizon Yahoo. I refused to use
something from Microsoft, so I'm stuck with Verizon Yahoo. They also didn't
bother to tell me it didn't include access to newsgroups, so for that I'm
stuck with google groups.
Now explain (a) why it's any of your business and (b) why this message was
allowed to be posted to qalam.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... <mailto:grammatim%40verizon.net> net
----- Original Message ----
From: Anton Sherwood <bronto@... <mailto:bronto%40pobox.com> com>
To: qalam@... <mailto:qalam%40yahoogroups.com> com
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:29:21 AM
Subject: Re: FW: [M_L] Re: Languages with writing systems?
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Verizon yahoo has two modes for messages from yahoo groups:
> either the entire block of message enters the reply as a single
> graphic, so responses cannot be inserted; or it is set for Plain
> Text, and the Quote of the previous message does not receive any
> sort of marginal mark.
One of the great mysteries is why there exist new mailers that can't
provide the simple, unambiguous, time-tested ">" convention. A slightly
lesser mystery is why apparently intelligent people use them.
--
Anton Sherwood,
http://www.ogre nu/
"How'd ya like to climb this high *without* no mountain?" --Porky Pine
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