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Re: Full-screen DOS on laptops (was: Memory problems with XyDOS (4) under Win98?)



** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:48:09 +0900

> Unrelated aside: I think it would be helpful, Robert, if you could set up your mail reader to
> attribute quotes by name rather than just the date of the message, especially when replying to
> notes that appeared some time back (after all, a few days is a looooong time in cyberspace--now
> there's a word we don't hear too often any more, do we?).

You mean, attribute quotes to the original sender, "so-and-so spake thus on date x", that
sort of
thing?  Why? I'm not referencing people, but ideas. I try quote the idea carefully, editing the
dross and keeping the essence. But who cares who said it, or when?


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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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