On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:00, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
*Please*, trim your quotes.
Patrick - My personal preference is to trim quotes. Since 1995, I subscribe to 35 or 40 lists and am List Owner of 3. To my surprise, I've found that lots of folks object to trimming quotes. There are a number of reasons that they give, but the primary one is that it makes it more difficult for someone to "jump in" in the middle of a discussion and at the same time stay on-topic and avoid repetition. I don't agree, but I see their POV, especially if their e-mail client does not thread messages effectively. For example, I use Evolution but it only allows threading based on responses to a particular message, rather than threading based on "subject." So, I turned threading off in Evolution. PMMail for OS/2 Warp, however, has a terrific threading function, in addition to being a better all-around e-mail client than Evolution. So, if trimming quotes is "de rigeur" on this list, I'll gladly trim. Wish I could trim myself as easily as I can trim a message but that's another story ... Kelly