> I don't believe that everyone believes in pruning out everything. Many > people reply at the top. If for no other reason than replies can be kept > in context. I don't want to start a war about email etiquette here, just > to say that I believe that not everyone agrees with points 3 & 4 below.
I think more of us have simply given up trying to get people to do 3 & 4. Most of the "modern" workstation mail readers make it quite difficult to do in a reasonable manner, and those of us still reading mail with MAILBOOK and Pine (with proper mail editors like Emacs) just can't stem the tide. There are times where I really miss low bandwidth communications, where the size of transfers actually mattered. That drove most of the reasoning behind pruning out unnecessary stuff, and I think it helped the clarity of the conversation. But, I'm old and cranky now, so I'll shut up. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
