im with you erik, clearly it's not a big deal. esp when you consider that the reply comes at the "top" of the email, so you dont need to scroll through the other shit to read it. it's not like these emails are taking up huge amounts of disk space b/c they arent "trimmed". What does take up a lot of space and time are huge email threads started b/c some joker has nothing more productive to do than be the "netiquette police officer". thats my 2 cents.
--Justin. On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Erik Curiel wrote: > > > So, if you are in a mailing list with mostly net-savvy people, you > > will appear rude if you break the customs. > > > This is a good point, but one of the things I have always found > distasteful not only about 'net-savvy people but indeed about almost every > group of people who strongly identify themselves with that group is the > fundamentalist zeal with which they jealously protect what they consider > the marks of belonging to that group. I honestly don't have the foggiest > clue why anyone would give a rat's ass whether email replies include tails > or not---except for the one reason that has been given many times so far > in this discussion, that it's what "people who are in the know" do. > > I think those sorts of reasons---and the pejorative lingo that goes along > with them, such as dismissing someone as a "newbie" when he does not > adhere to the meaningless little practices the performance of which > indicates that someone really has 'net savvy (and doesn't that really make > you cool, when you can demonstrate through your superior email usage that > you've been immersing yourself in the minutiae of the 'net subculture more > intensely than your correspondent?)---I think these reasons fall into the > same small-minded and prejudicial category as the behavior of those at the > OOPSLA conference who pre-emptively dismiss Lorin because he doesn't have > the marks of belonging to their little subculture, viz. a college diploma. > > I have never liked humans when they congregate into groups larger than > about 8. This knee-jerk jealousy of group identity is one of the primary > reasons why. > > And, just one more time, with feeling: I do not accept arguments about > how it saves time, makes reading more pleasant, blah blah blah. In my > experience it demonstrably costs much more time and is much more > irritating to prune tails in emails I am writing than to ignore tails in > emails I am reading. > > But since almost everyone else on the list seems to disagree, I will try > to trim my tails. If I forgt sometimes, I apologize in advance. > > E >
