[Dixielandjazz] THE 'featured song'????

[Eric Holroyd]

Hello Pat:

                To answer your questions on Netiquette.

If I'm replying to a question in a friend's email I'll put a greater than 
sign ahead of it, then type my answer on the next line.

As in:

>I was under the impression that was standard practice. Is this not so?

That's the way I was taught to use email, and I have to say that it's much 
easier to recognise and to do than your method, with the sample below coming 
from your own email to me:

<<you'll diminish the ever-growing number of 'greater than' signs (ie 
 >>>>>>>) which proliferate>>

If you'll forgive me saying so, that smacks of overkill.

But who am I, apart from a lover of the great English language and its 
grammar rules.

My major objection is to the way that the majority of email users nowadays 
incorporate the whole of someone's email message into their own message, 
then add their 'Me too!' at the head of it.

I see that as laziness, lack of Netiquette knowledge and or how to delete 
unwanted text, and downright discourtesy.

Several of the DJML's Usual Suspects do that on a daily basis, and I have 
yet to understand the motivation for Andy Ling to incorporate his company's 
disclaimer at the foot of each of his DJML messages. Unless he just wants to 
show the rest of us that he's doing his postings in company time on a 
company computer using the company's Internet Provider.

As a general observation though, and not confining it to DJML users, it 
seems very obvious to me that a very large number of people have either lost 
the art of letter writing, or else they've lost it somewhere along the way 
after leaving school.

I see many emails with no paragraphs at all, just long strings of hard to 
read sentences, with no thought of good communication to another person.

And I haven't even started on text messaging yet...

How do DJMLers react to text messages like: CU4T at 3. OK?

Kind regards

Eric Holroyd