From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Apr 22 01:55:18 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3M6tIjC012370 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:55:18 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3M6tI4Z012365 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:55:18 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 15CE9185E2B; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:52:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23153-05; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:52:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8C5D8185D3E; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:52:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:51:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Hull To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: Message quoting in threads Message-ID: X-MailKey: 646.827.9877x23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 18784 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: shull@iheavy.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: shull@iheavy.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.63 > quoted only the minimal relevant parts of the message ... > Dunno if anyone else feels this way. Hi Jared, it's been awhile since I've posted, though I've been lurking for sometime. I definitely agree. I'm on some other email lists, some have 250+ messages a day. When you're scanning that much stuff, you really need good subjects, and good editing. Ah, for the days when everyone used a text-based email client, and were forced to do the right thing... Reminds me of a story. Recently I got an email from a friend, which seemed to have no indentation at all. I mailed back saying effectively, I can't find your writing among the text. He explained, it's color coded! He was shocked that my email client didn't handle HTML... text-based, what's that? -- Sean Hull, Senior Consultant Heavyweight Internet Group Rockefeller Center, Box 5352 New York, NY 10185 http://www.iheavy.com voice: 646.827.9877x23 fax: 646.827.3434 Sean Hull, founder and senior consultant of Heavyweight Internet Group is the author of O'Reilly and Associates "Oracle and Open Source" bridging Open Source software and integration with the world's best performing database, Oracle. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l