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william the mind picture of anyone playing leapfrog with a unicorn made me laugh so much i had to take to the sedatives to get back onto the internet could have used it in my former life in a school to immobilise some of those difficult boys what a hoot thanks for the advice re emailling i am new to it and find i cant absorb all the refined techniques quickly thanks judy >From: "William A. Parrette" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: It just seemed a bit odd ... & Reviewing e-mail 101 >Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:08:55 -0400 > >Hi all, > > First off let me say that I am not trying to flame anybody, it > is not my intent to make anybody mad or hurt anyone's feelings, > and I am not writing this note to boost my own ego or to try to > punch holes in the egos of others. It just seemed a bit odd that > ... > > I was reading through the digest and came upon three separate > notes about copyright issues regarding the posting of entire > chapters of a book (and as a published author as well, I happen > to agree with). And, it just seemed a bit odd that each of the > three separate posts quoted the entire text of one of the chap- > ters that were being complained about in their reply. > > What is odd is that the copyrighted text that was under dis- > cussion had now been posted a total of four times. I might hu- > morously ask if there is a copyright law about copying a copy of > a violated work in an e-mail reply. Or, would the thought be too > recursive? > > Anyway, this brings up one of my smaller e-mail pet peeves. > It is a fairly common form of Internet courtesy -- or 'Netiquette > -- to only include the *portion* of the text of the e-mail that > you are replying to in your reply -- not the *entire* message. > Only include that text which helps someone understand the context > of your reply. > > I know that it is easier to press "Reply," add some text, and > press "Send." But, consider the fact that everyone on-list has > seen the original message at least once. Do, they need to see > the entire text of it again? And, people (like me :-) ) on the > digest don't have the option of deleting a message after we read > the reply. We get the whole thing with dozens of other, similar > messages surrounding it. And, when it starts becoming quotes of > quotes of quotes of quotes, it gets a little annoying. > > For most folks, this is a simple mouse operation: point to the > text you don't need, press mouse button one, hold and drag until > the text you don't want to include is highlighted, and then press > the backspace or delete key. Or, if you don't want the text of > the original message in your reply at all, it's a very simple Op- > tion/Preference change in most mailers. > > There is already a list-contingent who is trying (slowly but > surely) to get list-members to post in plain text -- no MIME at- > tachments, no included HTML -- and they are being somewhat suc- > cessful. If we could just add this one little thing, in my opin- > ion, everybody's list experience would be a little bit better. > > Thank you for taking the time to let me invade your mailbox > with my opinion. We now take you back to your regularly sched- > uled Parkinson's chat. > >Bill-- > ...who heard a wise man say "Never play leapfrog with a Unicorn." >.___. William A. ....._..._ .......7177 Heritage Drive (42?) - (42?) ----+ >| _ \__ _ _ _ _ _ ___| |_| |_ ___ .Westchester........| \ ___ \ ___ | >| _/ _` | '_| '_/ -_) _| _/ -_).OH 45069-4012......| (o o) (o o) | >|_| \__,_|_| |_| \___|\__|\__\___|.513/779-0780.......| ( V ) ( V )| >..... http://w3.one.net/~wap/ .... [log in to unmask] .......+- /--m-m- /--m-m--+ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com