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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:48:18 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail?
Message-ID:  <19980217094818.16871@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:59:04PM %2B1030
References:  <19980217165904.38126@freebie.lemis.com>

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Yes.

On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:59:04PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> It seems to me that in the last couple of months the number of
> hard-to-read mail messages has significantly increased.  I've come to
> expect poorly prepared messages from -questions, and I've written a
> web page to try to stop people from doing the nasty things they do,
> but lately I've noticed a tendency creeping in to the more technical
> mailing lists as well.  In particular, people are starting not to
> interleave answer and original text, the original reason for quoting
> messages, but just appending them at the end of the message, so that
> after about three iterations you have to look in four different places
> to find the references.
> 
> Am I just getting intolerant in my old age, or do other people see
> this as a problem as well?
> 
> Oh, and this way I'll see if -chat is still alive :-)
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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Eivind, who just had to :-)

P.S.  The "Yes." part is serious, though it's placement isn't. D.S.

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