From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Oct 29 14:23:57 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Imc5U-0000N6-RS for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:23:57 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Imc5U-0000Mz-6A for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:23:56 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:23:56 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Top posting and quoting ... Message-ID: <20071029212356.GA27850@digitalkingdom.org> References: <200710281811.OAA24625@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <2204fa080710281149y6f3c5caal9097bb5d746e1c82@mail.gmail.com> <200710291713.17323.colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com> <6ee9d0ca0710291414v779f7ab2g6bbf9fafd6fb325a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6ee9d0ca0710291414v779f7ab2g6bbf9fafd6fb325a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-archive-position: 5759 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:14:03PM -0400, John Daigle wrote: > Colin, you should consider the possibility that different email > quoting guidelines exist for different situations, No. Standards exist to facilitate actual communication, so people don't have to spend all their time dealing with others' idiosyncracies. > and that all such rules are totally arbitrary. No, they're really not. > Read the threads here... there is a huge mix of styles and no one > else is complaining. Only because I got tired of doing so; easier to just read less of the list. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/