Klarinet Archive - Posting 000765.txt from 2000/03

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] Ashamed
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:50:24 -0500

Alvin wrote:
> My use of caps has nothing to do with yelling or hostility towards
> anyone. I merely use caps to distinguish my comment from his comments. My
> ignorance of the computer prevents me from using italics.

The usage of all caps on a message in email is, by standard email usage, synonymous with yellind or screaming. I'm sure you didn't know that.

The convention for quoted text is the '>' as seen above. Most mail agents can be configured to automatically add the '>'. The one I'm currently using (from a remote site, behind a firewall) doesn't, so I add them myself.

One new convention I'm seeing is a collapse of the set of quoted lines (with possible problems when lines are formatted) and bracketed by '<<' and '>>' . While I personally don't like the style (and nested replies are very hard to distinguish), it does serve the purpose.

I strip out possible HTML formatting commands automatically from the mailing list since they make it very hard to read the text on non-HTML enabled mail agents, and they typically expand the size of a mail message 3-1. Never mind the security aspects of HTML (and thence JavaScript, ActiveX, Java, and who knows what else) mail. Thus italics or other font related information never gets through.

Emphasis is normally added via _underscores_ or a few words in CAPS instead of boldface.

Cheers,
Mark C.

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