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2006.10.14 22:36 "Re: SamplesPerPixel is 0 when loading image", by Joris Van Damme
Toby, Anurag, Toby Thain wrote: > I don't happen to use that function. Would you folks please care a bit more for proper quoting style? You've just sent a 13 KB message adding a 7 word sentence to the conversation. That's about 2.000 bytes per word. The totally redundant quoting is furthermore a badly mixed set of non-standard quoting styles and multiple font selection that doesn't relate to actual content. The complete message is totally unreadable. Please consider the following old-time rules: - Configure your mail client to send plain text only to newsgroups and mailing lists (and me, please). - A space is good where word-wrap is acceptable , otherwise you get nonsense like this further down the road ! - Quote prefix is a single '>' followed by a single space - Quote a trimmed version of exactly the snippet you reply to, and reply below that. A good rule of thumb is that your quote should usually not be larger then your answer. Remember that most of us follow many conversations in many newsgroups or mailing lists, so good quoting this serves clarity for the reader and aids memory, but good quoting should also be neatly trimmed so as to not waste your reader's time, and precede your answer so as to not require 5 minutes of scrolling, decoding and reconstructing! - Separate your quotes and your own paragraphs with a single empty line, as that increases the speed at which a reader can process your message greatly. - 'Act' is a verb, as in to act, meaning to do something. 'Actually' is a very different word. Your hipster 12 year old pals might understand you, but that's not the audience present here. Please realize that lots of folks in this mailing have very busy jobs, and are totally put off by messages that require 5 minutes to decode only to discover in the midst of the quoted filth there is this one sentence of actual communication saying you don't happen to use that function. Most furthermore are around since before HTML ever infested e-mail. Help us process your mail quicker by applying a more standard style, and your audience and impact and level of appreciation in the group will greatly benefit from it. I'm sure I'm speaking for everyone, except for the one or two who will reply to my message that I'm just being nasty, and the single smartass who will rightly point out that I'm wasting a lot of reader's time with this message too. Best regards, Joris Van Damme info@awaresystems.be http://www.awaresystems.be/ Download your free TIFF tag viewer for windows here: http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/astifftagviewer.html