On Aug 23, 4:15 am, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now gmail > automatically hides quoted text, replacing it by a tiny link "show > quoted text".
I read sage-devel and sage-support via the web and as John has mentioned for gmail, on the web the quoted-text also gets compressed into a single, expandable line. So "excessive quoting" isn't a big annoyance, and if you need to see what is being quoted, it's not hard to toggle it on and back off again. I find the email versions of the posts extremely hard to follow though when viewed in an email client (Thunderbird in my case). However, it seems that when I edit a reply on the web (as I did above, and as John did in his post) this expandable quoting feature gets broken. So if I was as passionate as Nick, I could argue that those who edit their replies are actually making reading harder on the web (but I don't necessarily really believe that). So for the high-traffic groups (sage-devel, sage-support) I don't get any email and I just regularly pop into the group on the web to look at what interests me and the "user experience" is OK no matter how quoting is handled by posters. For the low-traffic groups (e.g. sage- edu, sage-release) I have emails sent and then filtered into mailboxes so I know when there is activity, and then I usually go read these on the web rather than look at the email versions. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
