Re: [tlug] Quoting (& Saving important info)

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>    Lyle> That's rude.
>
> Possibly, although I tried to avoid that by inserting footnote 1.
>  
Why use a footnote down out of site, forcing people to waste time 
scrolling up and down the page when you can put it into parenthesis 
(like this) right where they can see it and right where it is relevant?  
I know that it's the fashionable and popular thing to do in spiffy 
e-mails to have neat footnotes at the bloody bottom of the page, but the 
practice is inconsiderate to the end user, the reader.

As for the other points.  They are interesting.  Thank you for sharing 
your thoughts with us.

One issue that has not been gone into at all - is the issue of valuable 
and informative information that is attacked by lawyers because it 
embarrasses their clients - not because it is illegal or incorrect, but 
just because they want it to go away.  People are threatened, they 
become afraid, they take the page down, and since there were nothing but 
links to the page, the info is lost to the world.  Or it could be a 
technical glitch that causes the same thing.  Yes, there is Google s 
archiving, but that's not instantaneous.  However, if someone thinks to 
replicate the data in educational e-mail, it can live on....

Lyle