J.J. Young on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:41:56 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [eia] bids


Yeah, I know it says to reply below the line on the message, but with some
email programs (mine, for example) the reply is set up to put new type at
the top, so you could easily do the wrong thing without ever reading the
original message, so I thought it was worth a reminder.

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [eia] bids


> Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > When replying to an escrow message, like the one for bids, always put
what
> > you want to say at the _bottom_ of the reply message, not the top.
> > Otherwise your entry will come up blank when the ecsrow is revealed.
Not
> > good, especially in the case of bidding.
> >
> > -JJY
>
> Hence the "reply below this line" bit. Someday I should make the escrow
> agent compare what appears above the line in a reply with what was sent
> out in order to catch when people do that.
>
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