Oy Veh

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

>> Blue lines plus green lines plus wrote wrote wrote:
>
> I fully agree that these replies to replies to replies are an  
> eyesore, and they certainly take up a lot of space, but they allow  
> us to grasp immediately what exactly the reply is replying to. Even  
> if you have a nice e-mail program which lines up the posts in neat  
> threads, the subject lines are sometimes changed and the origins of  
> a discussion hopelessly lost.
> What goes on on the p-list is a conversation, and it doesn't hurt  
> to have this conversation before you when you type out your own  
> reply or read other replies. It probably takes less time to scroll  
> down to the new content of a message than it would take to search  
> back through other messages, sometimes days old, to find out what  
> exactly a given reply is all about.
> The current practice of including earlier posts in replies is far  
> from ideal, and I often feel the need to exclaim "Oy Veh" (or  
> other, less printable, Danish equivalents) as well, but frankly,  
> the alternative is worse.


Good enough..

But what about the case of the responder who doesn't WANT it known  
exactly what is being responded to.

So-and-so wrote:

 >>(blah, blah, blah)

Dear So-and-so,

Damn your mustache, you mother of all calamities . . . . . do  
something right
once in a while and be a credit to the human race, like me.