Re: New Release of Mogwai ERDesigner NG

Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:30:22 +1100, Ben Finney
> <bignose+hates-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >The preferred style is "trimmed quote, inline posting": remove
> >anything from the original not relevant to your reply (leave the
> >attribution lines so we can still see who wrote which part), and
> >place your reply inline with the part of the original you're
> >responding to.
> 
> 	That's what I often (though not always) do.  It's an
> improvement, I'll admit.

Thank you for doing so. Then it seems you can see the benefits of the
standard posting style. That's good, because it should help you adhere
to it.

> >That way there's enough context without it being obnoxious, and the
> >message reads chronologically.
> 
> 	Well, chronologically or not, I don't reread paragraph after
> paragraph of what I've already read.  So that part doesn't do anything
> for me anyway.

The benefit to you is when *others* do the same, in threads where you
start reading partway through. This convention has arisen because it's
of benefit to everyone, not just to you.

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Ben Finney