Testing the Select-before-reply process. Appears to work by putting the selected text at the end. Hard to tell for sure because of those three dots symbols that Gmail splatters all over the place ...
Sometimes an inaccurate answer escapes my aging brain, so I know that not all of my thoughts deserve to be preserved in the Smithsonian, anyway, I was careful to not point fingers because that leaves three pointing back at me. David Carlson On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:14 PM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > There’s a trick with most mail clients, gmail included, that should help > trim some of that long message issue. > > Select the part you want to reply to, before hitting the reply button. > > This will only quote the selected portion. > > Of course, not everyone is so kind, (especially some newer digest users) > so you might end up with a few feet of scrolling occasionally anyway. > > Note, I just trimmed everything but your immediate message that I am > replying to. (and it is still top-posted) > > And for the record, I notice your messages frequently. They just don’t > normally require further comment. (at least not from me) > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Jan 8, 2020 w2d8, at 11:23 AM, David Carlson < > david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I usually reply at the top of a message because that is the way GMail > tries > > to force me to do it. I get tired of scrolling down to see if I missed > > something, but sometimes I have to do that anyway. Years ago I tried to > > reply at the bottom, but 22 message long threads got the best of me. > > > > Maybe that is why sometimes my answers do not get the notice that I think > > they deserve. > > > > Since threading has always seemed broken in GMail to me, I would not care > > if became missing altogether. > > > > David Carlson > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
