Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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