Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-31 Thread Bastien
Hi Thomas, t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: As penance for my often low signal to noise ratio ;) and a small token of my appreciation for the Org community and its product, I've drafted a description of the mailing list for Worg, which AFAICT lacked one:

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-30 Thread Ian Barton
On 30/12/12 05:01, Nick Dokos wrote: PS. FWIW, my guidelines are to trim as much as possible. I include the question(s) that I respond to and insert my answers inline. I try to include enough context so that somebody reading just that piece of mail can make (at least some) sense of the

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-30 Thread Ben Finney
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com writes: Ben Finney ben+em...@benfinney.id.au wrote: t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers? In brief: Don't respond at all to a digest message. Instead, […] Tom did not respond to a

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-30 Thread Thomas S. Dye
James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: On Dec 29, 2012 11:23 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers? I don't know where to find published guidelines As penance for my often low signal to noise ratio ;) and a small token of my

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-29 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Hi James, James Harkins jamshar...@gmail.com writes: Just a reminder to be kind to list members who are receiving digests and TRIM QUOTED MATERIAL. Recently: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/63982 That's me! I want to be kind. 48 lines of new content vs 1123 lines of

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-29 Thread James Harkins
On Dec 29, 2012 11:23 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers? I don't know where to find published guidelines, but this is how I try to handle it: - Quote just enough to capture the gist of what you're replying to. (As here -- I'm

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-29 Thread Ben Finney
t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers? In brief: Don't respond at all to a digest message. Instead, respond to the actual message you want to respond to; that way, your response will include correct fields in the header to preserve

Re: [O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-29 Thread Nick Dokos
Ben Finney ben+em...@benfinney.id.au wrote: t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers? In brief: Don't respond at all to a digest message. Instead, respond to the actual message you want to respond to; that way, your response

[O] Trimming quotes

2012-12-28 Thread James Harkins
Just a reminder to be kind to list members who are receiving digests and TRIM QUOTED MATERIAL. Recently: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/63982 48 lines of new content vs 1123 lines of quotes, for a whopping signal-to-noise ratio of 4.27%. Scrolling isn't *that* much fun... I