On Friday 09 January 2015 22:35:45 Bob Proulx wrote: > And also good editor skills of trimming out unneeded excess quoting. > Be brutal with removing excess quotes! Personally I would rather see > no previous quoted material rather than bad full quoting. Want to see > what the message looks like to other people? Take a look at it in the > mailing list archive. If it is hard for you to read then it will be > hard for other people to read too. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00288.html > > Contrast that to this message in the archive. I have brutally trimmed > the quotes to just the points to which I am replying. > > > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
Most of the bad trimming in the first of these is mine. I am very bad at trimming. I over-cut or cut the wrong thing so that when I read the nessage back later I can't follow it - so how can anyone else. So then I cut too little. But don't blame poor Wayne who made quite a good job of my hash. I was told always to leave enough for someone new to the list/thread to be able to follow what the discussion is about just by reading your posting, and not a scrap more. But I am not very good at it. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
