I also prefer to see something about the current thread in the reply itself, at least enough to recognize the context. It drives me crazy to see a short reply to something and then "View this message in context:..." -- mostly I ignore such messages when the subject header doesn't immediately illuminate things, which it may not, if the last piece of the thread dates back a week or so.
However, I'm in favor of brevity as long as it doesn't sacrifice intelligibility. It only takes a minute to edit the quotes to shorten things up and, especially, delete the repeated 5-line "use-livecode mailing list..." footers, which really are a waste of space. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Nov 10, 2011, at 8:43 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Francis. > > I agree with Mark. It is very convenient to see the recent history of any > discussion, laid out below the current entry for quick access. Beats opening > other eMails located heaven knows where, or searching the archives. > > Space is cheap. > > Craig Newman > > Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > >> Hi Francis, >> >> Usually I don't reply to messages that don't quote the preceding message. If >> you >> would like me to answer your questions and take part in discussions that may >> benefit you, quote the previous message. If you don't want me to reply, >> don't >> quote. >> >> On 10 nov 2011, at 13:09, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: >> >>> Hi to any culpritsl, >>> >>> Sorry to any of you who include past mails >>> within their new mail ....... BUT ......... >>> >>> You are wasting space ! >>> >>> Some of you go up to 6 or 7 levels, without >>> thinking that we don't need to see the same >>> information 6 or 7 times. >>> >>> If anybody wants to follow whatever was >>> said on that thread, they can always use : >>> >>> http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/ >>> >>> With thanks from us others ....... _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
