I think I have seen Mike use cap and punc several
times here - as a matter of fact I think we all have!
--- Martin Pratt <
m.a.pratt@...> wrote:
> I wholeheartedly endorse Dave's plea for BP members
> to delete
> unnecessary text from previous messages from their
> postings (BP 13802).
> Far from assisting the reader to follow the thread
> of a discussion,
> including lengthy unedited extracts of previous
> messages usually only
> serves to obscure the main message, especially when
> the formatting has
> been lost. Since the list has readily accessible
> archives, there's
> really no need to include anything from previous
> messages except the
> message number and possibly short extracts to which
> you wish to respond
> _directly_.
>
> There are a number of free tools available for
> 'cleaning' email text
> that has become filled with unwanted line breaks and
> reply quotation
> marks - see for example Mr Ed's Email Bracket
> Stripper at
> http://www.mistered.us/stripper/index.shtml.
> Microsoft Outlook users
> might also like to check out eClean 2000
> (http://www.jd-software.com/eClean2000/index.html),
> which only costs
> US$10 and allows the user to clean up messages from
> within Outlook with
> just a few clicks. Please think about making use of
> such resources
> before hitting 'send'.
>
> While we're on the subject of making messages easier
> to read, I'd be
> grateful if Mike Donner could explain why he is so
> opposed to the use of
> punctuation and capital letters? Such conventions
> exist to help the
> reader and I am sure I am not alone in finding it
> hard to follow much of
> what you write, Mike. For someone who is so
> punctilious in your pursuit
> of points around the world, it is rather ironic that
> you appear so
> hostile to their use in your writing!
>
> m a r t i n
>
>
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