S&S D Duplex

[Bill Ballard]

At 4:14 PM -0600 11/15/02, Avery Todd wrote:
>I "wrote" none of the below!
>
>Avery
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>At 10:42 PM 11/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
>>Avery Todd wrote: It's
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>>  > >all on the website Singingtone@aol.com.
>>  > >
>>  > >Dan Franklin

List, I thinks it's clear that we have to be quite disciplined about 
attributing quotes. It can get very confusing.

If I listed all of the ways in which poor attributions can mislead or 
slow the discussion, it would go on for 57Kb. I also realize that 
some people's emailers might be a little clumsy when it comes to 
effective attributing, or that once one's post leaves with the 
particular creator app's attribute-formatting, everyone else's 
emailer will show it however they wish.

That is to say, mine looks perfectly presentable, except that it's 
being read by the same app which created it, even in a copy received 
from the list.

So what to do? Not much, except to do what ever a human can do best. 
Look at it and see how it reads. (I could do a little of that 
myself.) Richard says that because each quote is ended by a 
signature, that it is identified. But it helps the discussion if you 
can go into the post know who's doing other talking. That certainly 
beats reading the whole thing , realizing that the proper id's 
weren't in there, and knowing you'll have to reconstruction the 
course of the thread from whatever you may have saved.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

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