On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote:
It seems that YOU can reply to cctech message(s) with "quoting" the answered
message.
How do you do that ???
First, are you doing a "REPLY", or a "create"/"Compose" new message?
If you are doing a "REPLY", then you need to either reconfigure your email
client program to a different configuration to include message being
replied to, OR reconfigure your computer for a different email client.
In the days when computers were REAL computers, email "client" programs
defaulted to "quoting" and including the message being replied to.
Unfortunately, that led to lazy people quoting the message, which quoted
the previous message, which quoted the previous message, back through
topic drift to include massive amounts of grossly irrelevant material.
You had to scroll past the history of the world to get to the new message.
The answer is to teach the lUsers to delete the irrelevant portions of the
past messages, and trim the quoted content back to only what was needed
to provide context.
"teach people"??!? canonical example of exercise in futility!
Rather than teach people, the makers of the email clients started to put
the new content BEFORE the history of the world. Called "top posting".
It's like a world of adolescents who don't wash their dishes, and end up
using paper plates because every dish is dirty, and piled in the sink.
Rather than try to get people to do it right, many "modern" mail clients
include the history of the world, but hide it from view when reading mail.
A short response, or even a "Me, too" is many KB or even MB long!
It is further complicated by the advent of "multimedia", where form is
higher priority than content. "Modern" email is more concerned with
delivering the massage with "dancing kangaroos and yodelling jellyfish"
than what the message says. "The medium is the massage"?
In order to facilitate the latest multimedia silliness, with
smell-o-vision, dancing kangaroos, and yodelling jellyfish, "modern" email
clients encourage sending executable content with the email. Including
Trojan Horses with cryptolocker, etc.
On THIS list, we are lovers of the classics, and we cling to the concept
that people CAN be taught to do things right, and even wash their dishes.
We never leave untrimmed quoted content (well, hardly ever), and we bottom
post. No attachments. You can post a link to content that won't render
in ASCII. (we are, however, updated enough to be using ASCII, instead of
Murray/Baudot)
I guess that we prefer "the good old days". If John Titor is reading
this, my offer still stands: I will come up with a 5100, with both APL AND
BASIC, and set up a foundation to fund the entire project, in exchange for
a ONE-WAY ride back 55 years. Round-trip only warrants a contribution
towards a 5100.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
