<2 cents> Also, certain supposedly "modern" mail programs make threading awkward to use, so the goal with those is quote the whole thing so that the fewest number of posts have to be kept, in order to have a copy of (or be able to find) the whole thread. On the other hand, if you receive a list in "digest" mode, that technique can be an abomination. It'd be cool if list servers gave, in addition to the current options of "send as digest" and "send individual posts", something like "send as threads". </2 cents>
Douglas Re: [LINUX-390] List FAQ etc David Boyes to: LINUX-390 08/25/2008 11:07 AM Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > 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
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