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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Delorie List" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: difficulty reading with speech
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:34:42 -0000
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>Actually, I personally rather like the interspercing of comments in with
>the prewritten text.  It makes it a lot easier to know what the individual
>is talking about.
Hear hear - it also makes it easier for those of us who lose the thread to
pick it up again - especially when you come back from holiday and download
hundreds of e-mails it's useful to be able to skip some of them :)

>However, I don't like those that put their comments at the top, (often
>times saying nothing that couldn't have been said without quoting) then
>quote the message they're replying to in it's entirety (including to,
>from, subject, and footer information in their response.
Don't know if you'd noticed this...  but I've only had that problem with
Microsoft clients and FirstMail (for Novell MHS).  My ISPs on-line
mailreader and my copy of Netscape seem to quote in this format - I have to
edit the quotes in Microsoft Outlook Express :(  But it is a terrible waste
of bandwidth...

Regards,
Ben Jemmett