Ged Murphy wrote:
Firstly, that text is written for usenet not email, which IMO is both ancient and very unix orientated.
Usenet has nothing to do with Unix today. Even your favourite software company still maintains active Usenet newsgroups, whose members usually follow the quoting guidelines :-P
Secondly, it's rather difficult to write emails in that format using outlook
Oh, and I'm currently using Outlook for writing this mail :-) It maybe takes 10 more seconds to reformat the mail in accordance to the quoting guidelines.
All in all, I second Timo's opinion about this. If you want to quote certain parts of a mail here, please abide by the mentioned guidelines.
Best regards,
Colin