On 2009-Aug-23 21:17:29 +0200, Christian Nassau <nas...@nullhomotopie.de> wrote:
>Rob Beezer wrote:
>> 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".  
>> 
>> [...] 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).

Agreed - but I use mutt because I want an MUA that is a dumb as practical.

>For thunderbird there is a convenient add-on "quote-collapse" that will
>hide all quotes per default:

I'm not sure that requiring people to install non-standard plugins or
read the mailing list via the web is an ideal solution to other
people's inability to prune unnecessary text when replying.

-- 
Peter Jeremy

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