SA>> I agree that the original was messy.  however, as
 SA>> an example of why I have probelms with your style,
 SA>> I left your "cleaned up" quote in its original
 SA>> form. It is very difficult to see who wrote what
 SA>> in the mess above.  What I suggest for clarity is
 SA>> something like this...

 RH> A big part of the problem is that several people write
 RH> their posts with an indent on every line.  That alone
 RH> makes for sloppy quoting.

actually, the biggest part of the problem is that folk don't have any
control over how their software quotes previous text... many software
packages also do not reflow quoted quotes... add that in with all the
various ways of quoting quoted quotes and you can get a real mess...

it all boils down to a lack of proper quoting standards and a lack of
adherence to what today's (defacto) standards are.

)\/(ark