As my inclusion of the previous message implies....
I prefer to have not have messages trimmed on occassion... many times the
thread goes over several days and either I don't want to search for the
original message, or have already deleted the original message, or don't
have access to the archives and old messages when I'm on the road and
downloading mail on my PDA. I agree that messages that have 10 replies
tacked on to the end of them are kind of ridiculous, but I presonally
don't have a problem with a message containing the past one or two
messages.
--Curt
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:57:05PM -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> > Well depends. Sometimes you don't want them trimmed, so if someone comes in
> > in the middle of the thread, they don't have to read each and every message,
> > but rather the last one.
>
> That's ridiculous. If someone comes in in the middle of the thread, they
> should check the archives for past messages. You're putting a burden on
> actual people that are already on the mailing list to accomodate some
> hypothetical person who might subscribe in the middle of a discussion.
>
> Ronald
>
