Re: [Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-16 Thread Hans Meine
On Sonntag 16 September 2007, John Molohan wrote: Justin Wetherell wrote: I can see why this would be annoying to anyone that uses a dial-up connection or an E-mail client from the early years (pine, etc). It's not just those users. It's about keeping the text relevant and easy to follow

[Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-15 Thread Jason Tackaberry
I'm normally not too religious about this stuff (anymore) but at the risk of sounding elitist, I must say that lately things are getting out of hand, and emails are getting ridiculously formatted. There is some sense to top-posting and not pruning any of the quoted text, but there is no

Re: [Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-15 Thread Evan Hisey
Jason- Yeah, sorry about that, I have gotten so used to getting giant emails at work lately(no one trims _anything_ ever). Thanks for the reminder. Evan - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-15 Thread Justin Wetherell
I agree but E-mail clients today (mine being Gmail) pretty much hide everything that is irrelevant. So it's not a conscience effort to keep the previous content, I'd guess it's more like people not realizing that they are actually including all text from a previous E-mail. I can see why this would

Re: [Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-15 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:02 -0400, Justin Wetherell wrote: I agree but E-mail clients today (mine being Gmail) pretty much hide everything that is irrelevant. I thought even with gmail when you reply to the email, it quotes (and shows) the whole quoted email in the textarea?

Re: [Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-15 Thread Jason Tackaberry
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:01 -0500, Evan Hisey wrote: Yeah, sorry about that, I have gotten so used to getting giant emails at work lately(no one trims _anything_ ever). Thanks for the reminder. Same where I work too. And there's actually some justification for that, especially where it's

Re: [Freevo-devel] Lazy email formatting epidemic

2007-09-15 Thread John Molohan
Justin Wetherell wrote: I agree but E-mail clients today (mine being Gmail) pretty much hide everything that is irrelevant. So it's not a conscience effort to keep the previous content, I'd guess it's more like people not realizing that they are actually including all text from a previous