[Oops! I just stumbled on a bunch of apparently unsent messages. Sorry if this is a duplicate.] BobF <FBob@wt.net> writes:
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote:
while I appreciate your post, could you please reduce the quote in the future? [...]
I try to quote relavent parts of an email so that someone reading one of many messages in an archive will be able to get a full picture of the problem [...] I would encourage others to do so too.
I'm not taking position in this mini-debate, except to say that proper quoting is an art, and a difficult one. I just hate when someone repeats the full original message, quoted, in a reply. Of course, one may argue for relevance (this is the message to which one replies, isn't it? :-), yet pure laziness is usually the genuine, real source of the phenomenon. On the other hand, giving no context at all is not a good thing either. When someone writes to me, without any kind of quote: "Thanks for your reply." or "I agree with you.", I usually do not have much idea of what it is about. Luckily enough, some mail user agents insert References in the mail header while building a reply, which may be used to recover the original message, but many do not. The full original message is usually too much anyway. Best is to learn how to quote parsimoniously. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq