I suppose you prefer your circuit diagrams in ASCII too.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Ron Bean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:makerspace@rbean.users.panix.com">makerspace@rbean.users.panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">James Arlen <<a href="mailto:myrcurial@thinkhaus.org">myrcurial@thinkhaus.org</a>> writes:<br>
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>Also, you need to learn that much like smoking is no longer fashionable,<br>
>making me scroll to read your answer is now understood to have negative<br>
>health effects.<br>
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</div>I've never understood this "making me scroll" stuff-- doesn't everyone<br>
just hit the spacebar for the next screen?<br>
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In any case, if you quote properly, the first part of your reply should<br>
be on the first screen. There's no point in reposting the entire message<br>
and then putting a reply at the bottom-- just quote the part you're<br>
replying to. This has been the traditional method since forever.<br>
[Hint: block delete is easy in most editors.]<br>
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"Bottom posting" is just as bad as "top posting", and both are<br>
relatively recent phenomena. But in either case, what annoys me is the<br>
people who don't put a blank line in between the quote and their reply,<br>
so everything runs together. It makes it very hard to see what's what.<br>
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