30 Jan
2004
30 Jan
'04
16:10
On Friday 30 January 2004 12:03 am, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:43:36 -0700
This is where trimming comes in. The prefered style is:
relevant excerpt 1 response to excerpt
relevant excerpt 2 response to excerpt
relevant excerpt 3 response to excerpt
I agree. It's a style I learned not by reading any standard but by imitating practice that I found made it easy to read posts. Personally I'm pretty aggressive in my trimming and even use [paraphrases in brackets] to enable me to trim even more (a common practice in print media). Paul Abrahams