[WikiEN-l] What is an "expert"?

[Marc Riddell]

> From: "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan at tobias.name>
> Organization: Barely
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:36:32 -0500
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] What is an "expert"?
> 
> On 19 Jan 2007 at 08:48, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> In my case, I don?t work with a single definition of the word ?expert?; in
>> too many contexts it is divisive and elitist. That is why, when I must use
>> it for any reason, I enclose it in quotes (no, I don?t use air quotes when I
>> speak it, George Carlin broke me of that).
> 
> Unfortunately, you seem to have some sort of character set issue; the
> quotes you use come out as question marks in the digest version, and
> as superscripted numbers in the web archive.  I haven't seen the
> headers of the individual-message version of this list, so I don't
> know what character encoding your messages are originally sent under.
> 
> Online archive version of your latest message:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-
> January/061199.html
> 
> You could also do with a little quote-trimming; while you do reply
> inline rather than top-posting, you still insist on leaving in all of
> the original message including headers, trailers, and other
> irrelevant material, so there's sometimes a lot of excess stuff both
> above and below your reply.

Daniel,

This is my very first experience with a Mailing List of any kind. Please
bear with me. Are you saying that, when replying, I should delete all other
material on the original message except the exact statement(s) I am replying
to?

Help!

Marc Riddell
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