Re: Clean North members news

["Don McGorman" <mcgormd@hotmail.com>]

I'm not going to argue but the newsletter I received at Yahoo had very 
strange formatting and was definitely hard to read.  You can say it's my 
fault but bottom line, this problem, if widespread, will tend to turn off 
readers.

I was not trying to be 'critical'; I just wanted to alert Kathie to a 
potential problem.  It would be a shame for her effort creating the e-news 
be wasted by technological barriers.

So you don't like my use of quotes; in 'plain text' mode that is the only 
way I know of to accent words and phrases apart from using UPPERCASE (which 
I am told is the eqivalent of SHOUTING).  Maybe you have a suggestion?




>From: Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>
>To: Don McGorman <mcgormdca@yahoo.ca>
>CC: Kathie Brosemer <kathie@cleannorth.org>, techies@lists.cleannorth.org
>Subject: Re: Clean North members news
>Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 01:05:54 -0400
>
>On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 07:23:17PM -0400, Don McGorman wrote:
> > Kathie:
> >
> > Somehow your message contained extra line feeds which
> > made it less presentable and a bit harder to read.
> > This may turn some people off from actually reading
> > it.
> >
> > This may have to do with the e-mail editor and/or a
> > cut and paste operation from another document.
>
>No, actually, if you look at it in the archives:
>http://lists.cleannorth.org/archive/members/2002-05/msg00000.html
>
>it's a perfectly formatted message.
>
>I don't notice a single line over 80 characters, or 76 for that matter.
>
>Certainly no extra line feeds or anything of the likes.
>
>Perhaps your mail reader is reformatting messages on you.
>
>-Dan
>
>PS, when criticizing someone's netiquette, you might want to be extra 
>careful
>yourself.  It's considered very bad form to quote something and not comment
>after the quote.  Quoting text is considered an indication that a reply is
>below and one should keep reading.
>
>http://www.darkmountain.com/netiquette/e-mail.html
>is a good resource.
>
>--
>"Burnished gallows set with red
>  Caress the fevered, empty mind
>  Of man who hangs bloodied and blind
>  To reach for wisdom, not for bread."  -- Deoridhe Grimsdaughter
>




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