On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 11:53 +0100, Maria Blackmore wrote: > I'm really rather annoyed by the modern trend towards hiding > previously seen text. It makes it hard to determine what exactly is > being replied to unless you unhide it, and if you have to unhide it to > make sense of it, then why is it hidden in the first place? The > assumption that text will be hidden also gives rise to people not > bothering to trim their responses, so when you do have to unhide text > you end up with a giant mess to read through.
Those of us familiar with service desk software implementations grind our teeth on a daily basis as email clients insist on posting the same bottom-quoted information in every transaction, making finding the real updated information like looking for a small needle in a giant haystack.[0] Graeme [0] those "of a certain age" might remember a wrestler. I'd surmise that looking for a tiny needle in Giant Haystacks was an entirely different proposition!
