On Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:15, Mitchell Brown wrote: > I don't understand why every email client doesn't hide quotes
because an email client is NOT an instant messenger. It is meant for correspondence that may not be answered until some time has passed. Quoting allows one to put the new comments into context - even if the new comments are a year after the fact (yes, I've seen responses to email after a year - very rare, but is known to happen). As a business person, I routinely have email conversations on multiple but related topics with multiple people. If I did not reference the original message, I would have to drop email because it would get too easy to get confused, and go back to phone calls which are not always the best choice and provide no paper trail. (example, I have had 5 email conversations throughout today all regarding LinuxFest, but with different folks.) But that puts the onus back onto the author to include what is pertinent - they *should* strip out unnecessary text/quotes. And the mailing list footers as well. If an email conversation is progressing similar to an instant messenger type of conversation, then maybe the converstation would be better suited to Gaim or something similar. (btw - most of us on this list view mail in plain text, so marking text as bold, or any other sort of markup is more likely to mess up the received message than help it.) My thoughts... Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
