Re: addresses in attributions
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:26:15AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> > Have you got a "%D" in your set attribution="On ... wrote:"?
> > On some lists you can get flamed for including the email address in the
>
> Flame away, if it helps. :) I've been around a long time, and I think
> including the address provides more good than harm (if it makes sense
> to attribute at all). I don't really think that hiding people's e-mail
> addresses on web pages is that much use anymore, but in any case that's
> a job for the people putting e-mail on the web, not for me. It's easy
> for them to do HTML entity encoding, which is still 100% effective as
> far as I can see, without even chopping off domain-parts or converting
> to bitmaps or replacing @ with (at) or whatever the flavor of the week
> is.
>
> That said, usually I delete the attribution altogether if I don't think
> it provides any value. I've come to believe that often it doesn't.
> It's cluttery, and if it doesn't really matter who I'm responding to,
> why include it? I just forgot on the last one.
It helps to know who said what. For example, you can't tell who said the
first paragraph just from this message.
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Chris.
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