Re: [OT] List posting

Thanks for your help. Sorry to have opened a can of worms!! Regards, Paul Potter

 
 
 
 
 









 > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:03:08 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [moneydance] [OT] List posting
> 
> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> > (and apologies to all for the top-post)!! 
> 
> Lewis, here are the steps for solving top-posting:
> 
> 1. Select All.
> 2. Delete.
> 3. Type message.
> 
> Oddly enough, the same procedure also solves bottom-posting. ;-)
> 
> Seriously, one mailing list I'm on puts in the tag "Quote sparingly, if 
> at all. We all read the previous message". This is the best advice. Only 
> quote the previous message if you plan to interleave quote and reply. 
> (Top-reply with full quoting is often used in business email so that 
> when the message is forwarded, or a recipient is added to the cc list, 
> they can review the history. This serious limitation of email technology 
> does not apply to mailing lists.)
> 
> Paul, you had the bad luck to pick one of the rare spam messages that 
> reach this list and reply to it. If you had replied to almost any other 
> message in the list, OR if you had followed the above procedure and also 
> deleted the extraneous recipients (as well as changing the subject, 
> which you did), then no one would have noticed. Larry is correct that 
> starting a new message rather than a reply is preferable, for the 
> reasons he explains,, and you can see where doing a reply got you 
> tangled up. But still it was the multiple recipients retained from the 
> spam plus the quoted spam that triggered the negative response.
> 
> Note also, though, that the best place to get help for MD problems is
> 
> http://help.infinitekind.com/
> 
> which is where you land if you go to http://moneydance.com and click 
> "help". There's a link to the support site at the bottom of every email 
> on this list. Almost all new discussion is taking place there. This list 
> is still going to maintain an alternate channel of communication, but 
> there are only a few of us die-hards left here.
> 
> Edward
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