On 2021-03-20, at 13:15, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:49:09AM +0000, tom petch wrote: >> From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> >> Sent: 19 March 2021 17:54 >> >> Subject: Re: [netmod] Use of prefixes in YANG models >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:38:11PM +0000, tom petch wrote: >>> >>> <tp> >>> Apologies for the useless quoting that my webmail imposes on me:-( >>> >> >> Your webmail does not allow to edit the quoted text? >> >> It has no replace function so I would have to insert a > character in front >> of every line by hand. And, often, the original e-mail as displayed has a >> series of coloured lines down the left hand side which give some indication >> as to what the level of quoting is. When composing a reply, those lines >> have vanished so I would have to go back to the original e-mail to see what >> the level of quoting is for any one paragraph and then insert the >> appropriate number of > characters for each line of each paragraph. Life >> is too short to iron tea towels (as a famous person once said)! >> > > I do not know what forces you to use this webclient but there is > always a readers vs. writers or who pays the price aspect. I do > occasionally press 'delete' on emails requiring extra time or special > tools to identify the contribution (and given that I am of the dying > species reading emails in plain text, I accept that the world is > moving on and I am just stuck in the 20th century).
+1. Further to that, let me point out that getting emails that were mishandled like this makes many readers think the sender suffers of a serious disregard for their readers. That may not be the signal that you want to send to a large professional community of peers. Grüße, Carsten _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
