[Pulp] OCC: Posting styles

[Matt Ashley]

----- Original Message ----
From: Rob Miracle <rob at robmiracle.com>
To: T20 Adventure during the Rim War <pulp at travellercentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:26:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Pulp] OCC: Posting styles

I think it might be helpful to go over the Internet standard reply / attribution format.   Unfortunately very few web clients (gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc.) play well.     And Outlook is a real mess.

Lets say I post the text in a new message:

How Now Brown Cow
Cow Now How Brown

Rob
--
My Signature Block


You reply to it, the message should look like:

Rob Miracle wrote:
> How Now Brown Cow
> Cow Now How Brown
>
> Rob
>--
>My Signature Block

You are to remove the signature block, its -- pre line and my name above the sig block since I'm no attributed at the top.
and your reply goes below the >'ed lines.  With your reply, the message should look like

Rob Miracle wrote:
> How Now Brown Cow
> Cow Now How Brown

I don't like Cows, I prefer Horses

Matt
--
Your signature block.

Then when I or the next person replies, you end up with:

Matt Ashley wrote:
> Rob Miracle wrote:
>> How Now Brown Cow
>> Cown Now How Brown
>
> I don't like Cows, I prefer Horses
>
> Matt
>--ope
>Your signature block.

Now at this point before I reply, I need to kill  your bottom name and signature block and depending on context,  remove my original message as we have already read it.   So the resulting message to be sent would then end up:

Matt Ashley wrote:
>
> I don't like Cows, I prefer Horses

Horses are cool too.

The GM
--
The GM's Sig block

This system keeps the amount of quoted material down, we already have read it.   Now if you need to keep parts of two or three poster's message for context purpose, thats okay.  You maintain multiple levels with additional >'s.

This is the long standing Usenet/Mailing list replying standard.   I wish today's web mail clients worked correctly.   Even dedicated mailers like Thunderbird and Eudora now use pipes (|) instead of greater than signs in their graphical displays, though the clear text uses the >'s.


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That helps, thanks.

Matt


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