[Tutor] A Plea for Sensible Quoting

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Michael Powe wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I read this list in a linux console using mutt. I dunno, maybe I'm the
>only idiot left still using a console mail client.  I write my emails
>and email replies in emacs, too, which may make me even weirder.

Mutt in xterms here with vi (I've never been able to get my
fingers retrained for emacs after almost 30 years of vi :-).

Agreed on the quoting.  Interspersing new information between
quoted sections is great, but quoting an entire message only to
add ``ditto'' at the end is idiotic.

Bill
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