RussellMc wrote:
> Not meaning to be rude (I can manage that well enough unintentionally
> on occasion) BUT a fair bit of what you complain about in most such
> cases like this one, and you do it ongoingly, seems to be due to a
> major deficiency in the functionality / feature set of your email
> client.

Perhaps, or perhaps it's the way I set it up.  However, all that is a
irrelevant point.

The real point is that nobody should have to scroll back, look thru a
archive, look at thread history, or whatever, to get the basic context of a
reply.  I wouldn't bother no matter how easy it might be, which is perhaps
why I haven't bothered to even investigate whether my client can be set up
that way.  I probably wouldn't anyway since I don't like keeping old stuff
around that I shouldn't have to keep around.

> PS: Use of "Duh" in most sentences in most cases is liable produce a
> result in the mind of he hearer out of all proportion to the effort
> taken to write it.

Precisely.  It's sortof a way of saying "that was really stupid, which you'=
d
have known if you bothered to give it a few milliseconds of thought, moron"
but without actually calling someone a moron or the like.  "Duh" is rather
more succinct and to the point.  It's also quite common and accepted in the
real world.


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