On Aug 26, 2009, at 1:40 AM, peterjer...@optushome.com.au wrote: > 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.
I am +100 for better netiquette, including the topic discussed here, but as a practical solution sometimes tools are easier to adapt than people :( - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
