email failure

[Richard Vickery]

To point one, which is copied from below in case you miss it: 

It doesn't do it for whole message and I can envision that you still get lost in the reply. 

Richard 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Suvayu Ali" <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> 
To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org 
Sent: Saturday, 18 January, 2014 15:26:16 
Subject: Re: email failure 

Hi Richard, 

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:17:06AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: 



The problem with bottom-posting on this server is that when I send, it 
is hard for some, perhaps everyone, to know where the quoted message 
stops and my contribution begins. If you go to the bottom of this 
email you will see that your contribution is not "quoted" as such, and 
- especially if the same font were used - you can't really tell 
without paying really close attention to the "--" where the exchange 
starts. 

Two comments: 


1. I think you missed the instruction I was pointing to in my earlier 
response[1]; I'm quoting it below. 

Specify whether to prefix each line with > of | for the previous 
email messages that are forwarded or replied to, if you chose to 
quote original text. 


It doesn't do it for whole message and I can envision that you still get lost in the reply. 



If you use the above, level of quotes are easily distinguishable. 
2. The signature string is "-- ": that is two dashes, followed by a 
single space. Without the single space, the special meaning is lost. 

Hope this helps, 


Footnotes: 

[1] <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/445649.html> 


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Suvayu 

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