[time-nuts] Posting style Was: looking for good description/generalized model for time adjustments

Lux, James P (337C) james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Jul 29 23:34:34 UTC 2009


Test of quoting of responses..

This looks better, at least from here..

James Lux, P.E.
Task Manager, SOMD Software Defined Radios
Flight Communications Systems Section 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive, Mail Stop 161-213
Pasadena, CA, 91109
+1(818)354-2075 phone
+1(818)393-6875 fax

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Rex
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:18 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Posting style Was: looking for good
> description/generalized model for time adjustments
> 
> James,
> 
> Your email posting style makes it very difficult to follow threads
> where
> you have posted replies.
> 
> Most mail reader programs follow the convention, that on a reply, they
> automatically start with a header that identifies the last poster ("In
> reply to message from xxx") and then "quote" the entire replied-to
> message by prefixing each line with a chevron ">" in the first column.
> If another person replies later the same process is usually used, so
> when reading the latest message in the thread, one can determine the
> sequence of replies, because the oldest has maximum chevrons preceeding
> the lines, and the most recent comments have none. One can usually
> trace
> up the message to find the "in response to"-type headers and figure out
> who said what.

And here's a response..


Seems to have quoted properly.
(of course, some centrally managed configuration update pushed out tonight might set it back...arghh)

Jim



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