Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish,net.flame,net.general Subject: What to do about all these "quotes" of articles Message-ID: <1308@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 09:25:24 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1308 Posted: Thu Dec 20 09:25:24 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 02:10:45 EST Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.religion:5163 net.religion.jewish:1121 net.flame:7320 net.general:4184 Summary: Please consider this idea: when you quote another article, put the quote at the END (after your signature) not at the beginning. Then people can decide whether to read the article (and also whether to read the quote!) by looking at your response, instead of stepping through the quote. Obviously long quotes will be a lot less painful at the ends of articles, but I urge you to carefully prune what you quote nonetheless. Unless this proposed style becomes the norm, I suggest stating "Quote at end" in the first (bugeater) line of the article, so people who really need the quote to understand your article will know it's coming. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison