robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (12/20/84)
Please consider this idea: when you quote another article, put the
quote at the END (after your signature) not at the beginning.
Then people can decide whether to read the article (and also whether
to read the quote!) by looking at your response, instead of stepping
through the quote. Obviously long quotes will be a lot less
painful at the ends of articles, but I urge you to carefully prune
what you quote nonetheless.
Unless this proposed style becomes the norm, I suggest stating
"Quote at end" in the first (bugeater) line of the article, so
people who really need the quote to understand your article will know
it's coming.
- Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
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