If I sent a message, I certainly hope that the
receiving email client shows the message exactly as I had intended it.
Hehe. Unfortunetly Gmail won't get rid of that stuff for me:
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It's quite annoying !
On 4/18/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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