The Saturday 2004-10-09 at 11:47 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 08 October 2004 5:53 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If the posters use thread aware MUAs, I don't need more than a little context. If I want to check what the previous poster wrote, I only have to move my cursor up on the header list to get it.
But Carlos, how about the case where I'm answering a post that raises issues A, B, and C, each of which merits a particular response? The logical order of my answer is A, response to A, B, response to B, C, response to C. Even using an MUA such as the one you recommend, I lose the association between each issue and the response to it if I don't quote A, B, and C in the proper places.
By all means! Just quote a paragraph about A, answer it, then another bit about B, answer, etc. No problem :-) I do that all the time. I only object when some people answer leaving the complete original text intact, and not always: like when I can find below two or three posts, or when someone sends a big log and then some one answers with a line (top or bottom, doesn't matter) living the full 16 kilobytes of quoting intact. That is, I grumble when the non original content is fairly big. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson