Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!fuug!news.funet.fi!funic!finsun!harper From: harper@finsun.csc.fi (Robert Harper) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: Line length Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 07:25:57 GMT References: Sender: usenet@nic.funet.fi Organization: Centre for Scientific Computing, Finland (CSC) Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: finsun.csc.fi In kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) writes: RS>> On the other hand, you don't have to include the entire message, RS>> just the relevant parts. DK>This presumes that people have learned how to use the editor (usually DK>user-unfriendly vi, emacs, etc) with their mail system. Quite often DK>this is not the case unfortunately. An when there are alot of comments to the same topic and you have no idea that >> refers to Roy Smith and > refers to Dave Kristofferson it is sometimes useful to put their initials before the right arrow. This can been done very easily under emacs with the replace-regexp command. -=ROB=- % Robert Harper % HARPER@FINFUN % HARPER@CSC.FI % % Finnish State Computer Centre % Bitnet % Internet % % Tietotie 6, 02101 Espoo Finland % Tel 358 0 4572076 % Fax 358 0 4572302 %