On 10/21/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:

On 10/20/05, Anthony DiPierro wikispam@inbox.org wrote:

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Jay.

Anthony

Anthony, could you possibly stop this practice of including the other person's signature at the end of your replies unquoted? This is an example, where you included Jay's "Jay." on a line by itself before your signature below, without quoting it at the right level.

Please don't do this, as what you're effectively doing is attributing your words to someone else. I don't see that you need to include it, since you include a standard citation leader ("On 10/20/05, JAY JG < jayjg@hotmail.com> wrote:"). If you do feel the need, please indent it with your standard quotation indent ("> " or whatever) to make it obvious that it's part of the quoted text and NOT your reply?

That's what I usually try to do. If I didn't do it that particular time, it was accidental. I'll have to look into what gmail is doing in this situation. Anyway, I guess I can leave out the signature completely. You're right that it's in the leader, it just seems weird when I sign my name but the other person's name isn't there, like I'm trying to take away their signature or something.

Sent to WikiEN-L because your apparent mailing address is clearly

spamtrapped.

Clearly? Actually, it's not spamtrapped at all. I'll spamtrap it if I start getting a lot of spam. Anthony