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RE: [ECS] ECSW Mailing List -- ALL ECS'ers Please Read Ingo Dean Tue, 1 Sep 1998 21:49:02 -0400

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> From: Ingo Pakleppa [mailto:ipakleppa@ecs.com]

First of all, cool domain name!

> Re. HTML: I still use Eudora 3.0, which kind of somewhat does a little
> HTML. Unfortunately, it uses a dialect quite different from Netscape... So
> I second the "no HTML" suggestion.

InMyHumbleOpinion, I believe (humbly, again - don't want a religious war
here!) that HTML is here to stay.  I fought it for a while myself, but (just
like Microsoft) we're going to have to get used to it.  But I for one have
configured my mailer to only do html to certain addresses that I know can
handle it, and mailing lists don't apply here yet.

> I abstain on the number of lists.

No vote either... but if we do split the list, I'll just subscribe to both
lists, and have to delete all the crossposts that are inevitable.

> I would like to amend the "don't quote" suggestion. More importantly, I
> prefer to read mails where the new stuff is at the TOP of the
> quoted text -
> keeps me from scrolling down all the way. Of course, if you want to embed
> your replies to specific paragraphs, that often makes a lot of sense, too.
> Just please avoid appending your reply to the bottom of a mail
> (seems to be
> Netscape's default)!

Yes, please, please put your stuff on top!  (OK, or you can imbed your
comments... kinda depends on whether you're responding to the message as a
whole, or to each item individually.)  :-)

> Ingo

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