Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 9/7/07, Sloan
wrote: Felix Miata wrote:
You won't get it from this old geezer. I see hundreds of posts from dozens of mailing lists each day. There's no way I'm going to remember the context of some random reply, so I nearly always have to read some quoted material before the reply can have contextual meaning.
I don't mind top posts at all, because the subject is enough to give me context. The answer is what I want, and quickly. A small snippet of the previous thread, just enough to give context, is optimal, and I don't care too much if it's above or below the answer.
What I don't like is having to wade down through the tedious history of a huge series of postings (all of which I've read several times before) just to see a one-line answer buried at the very bottom.
Joe
Joe,
You might want to experiment with gmail. It takes all quoted text and hides it behind a hypertext that says "- Show quoted text -" most of the time.
Then if you need the context you just click on it. I too read hundreds of list based emails a day. I only expand the quoted text a couple times a day (if that).
That's great if you like web-mail, and all of it's attendant slowness associated with synchronous download operation, as opposed to the advantages of asynchronous download operation with normal, workstation-based mailers, in which all messages are downloaded to my computer as soon as they're available. Thus, I can go from message to message with the speed limited only by the 1/4 Gigabyte/second data transfer speeds of my machine's internal data busses, NOT the 1 MB/second or less of my ISP connection (and even WORSE when I was in Baghdad...) It's quite presumptuous to assume that everyone has good network bandwidth. Many participants do not.
Greg
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