[H-GEN] altering disk partitions

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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"alex_del at bigpond.net.au" <alextdel at bigpond.net.au> writes:

> jason wrote:
> > You know, I'd actually be inclined to read your message and maybe even
> > answer your question if you'd interspersed your question between
> > Greg's text instead of just typing what you wanted to say above it.
> I'm new at this (as you obviously can tell).

Oh, you'd be surprised.  Some otherwise quite intelligent and
reasonable people simply cannot be made to see sense on this topic.  I
have tried and tried for years.

> I thought that by placing the question at the beginning it would
> save the reader from carrying on reading the remainder if they were
> not interested in the subject.

That's a common misconception.  The thing is that most people will
just "scan over" small amounts of quoted text, and if they need to be
reminded of what you're responding to, they can scan up a paragraph or
two and it will be right there, which is actually much more
convenient.

This leads to email that looks like this and the "paragraph by
paragraph" style which is used so effectively on USENET.
-- 
uck Wa!

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