Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Goodman wrote:
> But, having been personally flamed for having done something similar
> recently, I am curious as to whether or not it (fullquoting when adding
> a short bottom-post) is really an issue to most people, or just to a couple.

Well, I'd much rather you trimmed it and I'm equally curious to see
whether I'm alone.

> After all, you can get to the bottom with a either a single mouse move
> or a short sequence of the same Page keystroke -- don't even have to
> count how many...just do a few and you are at the bottom. For me, the
> space bar will get me to the bottom in a fraction of a second.

But you can't just go to the bottom, you have to scan every line because
they may have put the comment at random in the middle. And the mouse
movement is a long drag of the type designed to provoke RSI injuries.

The problem is much worse on HTML lists of course, because you can't
trust the highlighting.

> Today, time is in short supply for most people,
>
> So why should we take the time to trim a relatively small bit of text?

Because there are more readers than writers and so it's the readers'
time that should be considered.

Cheers, Dave
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