I believe if you respond directly from the Google Groups Beagleboard Forum it will automatically add the previous conversation content. If you extend the '...' then you will see what is being added. I just respond directly in GMail and avoid the quotes unless I find them necessary.
Jeremias, If you want to take the discussion offline I am cool with that. Jon On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:50 PM Dennis Lee Bieber < dennis.l.bie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:24:54 -0300, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user > "'Jeremias Ramirez' via BeagleBoard" > <beagleboard-/jypxa39uh5tlh3mboc...@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > >Dennis, to be honest, the quotes I see are only three little dots at the > >end of the mail that I simply ignore. I don't know where are you reading > >this, but I didn't realize that quotes may be annoying. > >My apologies. > > > I read via the gmane NNTP server. According to my newsreader, the > post > I'd responded to, and trimmed, had 1520 LINES of text in it. > > I suspect whatever client you are using is simply masking quoted > material by not displaying it, but it is none-the-less being included in > replies. > > And... I wasn't really targetting you with the complaint. It's a > general gripe I find in forums that didn't grow up with Usenet etiquette > (or "pay per minute" connections). > > https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt > Section 2.1.1 for individual email (ie: one-to-one messages) > """ > - Be brief without being overly terse. When replying to a message, > include enough original material to be understood but no more. It > is extremely bad form to simply reply to a message by including > all the previous message: edit out all the irrelevant material. > """ > Section 3.1.1 for lists and Usenet (one-to-many messages) > """ > - If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you > summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just > enough text of the original to give a context. This will make > sure readers understand when they start to read your response. > Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the > postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a > response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context > helps everyone. But do not include the entire original! > """ > > Unfortunately... Then came Microsoft Outlook -- which sought to > produce > a business ethic in which quoted material is the equivalent of a photocopy > attached to a snail-mail letter as a courtesy for the recipient (who should > already be familiar with the content, the copy just saves them looking up > archived mails for any details they forgot), and the entire reply is > provided "above" the copy. > > > -- > Dennis L Bieber > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/h49epf9b24efhlrsimfue7or7pb3u4h8bv%404ax.com > . > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAG99bkoBwZC-_CT%3D4YLAjSE6ZUioOxaB%2BY%2Bbf7j_Y%2BmzZfoB%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
