--On Friday, September 24, 2010 08:17 -0700 Randy Dunlap
<rdunlap(_at_)xenotime(_dot_)net> wrote:
One thing that bothers me is when people do mixed-line posting
but end their reply say, < 50% thru the message, but then they
don't delete the rest of the message, so the reader has to scan
the rest of the message to see if there are more comments.
This saves time for the (one) sender and wastes time for N
readers.
Again, if we all had consistent habits, many of these things
would be non-problems. But we don't, and I don't know how to
fix that.
For that case in particular, I've sometimes done it
deliberately, but...
-- I always close/"sign" actual messages by typing my name, not
relying on some signature block. So, if you see "john" or
"--john", not immediately following by a "p.s." or something
else with a forward pointer from the text above, I'm finished.
-- Given that, I sometimes leave additional text as context for
those who might need it, expecting that others will understand
that they don't need to read anything after the signature line.
Your comment suggests that expectation has been unreasonable.
john
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