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|    Evelyn C. Leeper to Keith F. Lynch    |
|    Re: MT VOID, 10/25/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 17    |
|    28 Oct 24 13:03:58    |
      From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com              On 10/27/24 4:02 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:       >       > But then I still believe that text in a reply should only be quoted to       > establish context, and should appear before, not after, the response       > to it, so what do I know? Anyone who has read much recent email knows       > that *every* word of a message being replied to should be quoted,       > and should be quoted *after* the reply.       I often get a one-line response to the MT VOID that I email, but it is       usually *before* the hundreds of lines of quoted text, i.e., the entire       MT VOID, so I don't have to scroll down all the way.              --       The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting       for the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they       thought it was one of them. [@Strandjunker on Mastodon]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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