[lojban-beginners] Re: Top posting and quoting ...

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

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

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