On Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 12:45:56 PDT Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado wrote: > >People who don't prune the quotes is annoying, certainly, because they >force you to read sometimes hundreds of lines to get to the real answer, >but at least they force you to read in the proper order, top to bottom, >so in the worst case it's a matter of scrolling down. OK, it's far from >perfect but at least the reading order is preserved. Top-posters usually >don't prune quotes either, and they force you to switch reading order, >which is worse.
I use mutt to read the list, in a full-screen terminal window. Not counting the header lines, that leaves around 50 lines for each message. I have mutt configured to display quoted text in a different color than new text, so I can easily see which is which. If I don't see anything except quoted text in those 50 lines -- and this is surprisingly common -- I immediately move on to the next message. I do NOT scroll down in hopes of eventually finding whatever it was the poster felt moved to say. IOW, I have a semi-automatic process for ignoring messages from non-pruners. I do read top-posts, but I grumble about it. ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
