Please add the author when quoting emails

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Hi,

I see more and more emails in this list where someone responds to 
another email in a thread, quotes the content of the email but does not
add the author who said this.
This makes it very hard to find out who said what, so please always 
quote the author when quoting emails.

Thanks
Carsten
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Carsten Ziegeler
cziegeler@apache.org

Re: Please add the author when quoting emails

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Tobias Bocanegra wrote:
> 
> yes, i do that sometimes, especially when the context is clear. i
> never had problems figuring out who said what, especially since the
> mail-viewer displays a nice threadded view :-)
:) The problem is that many users are not using such mail readers or if 
you're searching the thread context is lost etc.
Now, but there are more people on this list not quoting the author :)
It's not a big deal, but makes things much easier.

> 
> what i find worse is when people write their reply before the original
> message. it happens to me sometimes, too, since my mail client
> (google) does this automatically.
Hehe, I sometimes do this as well (without using gmail), just because it 
makes reading mails easier. Instead of scrolling down the whole mail, 
you respond on top. I think that's valid if you're not directly refering 
to a specific content of the other mail but more to the email/thread in 
general.

Carsten

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Carsten Ziegeler
cziegeler@apache.org

Re: Please add the author when quoting emails

[Tobias Bocanegra <to...@day.com>]

On 5/2/08, Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org> wrote:
>  I see more and more emails in this list where someone responds to another
> email in a thread, quotes the content of the email but does not
>  add the author who said this.
>  This makes it very hard to find out who said what, so please always quote
> the author when quoting emails.

yes, i do that sometimes, especially when the context is clear. i
never had problems figuring out who said what, especially since the
mail-viewer displays a nice threadded view :-)

what i find worse is when people write their reply before the original
message. it happens to me sometimes, too, since my mail client
(google) does this automatically.

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regards, toby