On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:16:02 -0400, SomeDude <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 18:00:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Mac mail fixed this problem for me. All previously received text is
folded out, no need to look at it.
So there is a lot of visual noise for nothing, and you like it ?
I like that I don't have to deal with it. I also don't have to deal with
it if the person deletes the replied-to text. In other words, it takes
all forms, and gives me what I need to read.
And what if one uses the web forum, like me ? Or Thunderbird ? Do we
need to buy a mac and use your newsreader ?
No, I'm just stating that I don't have that problem. That is with email
though, mac mail doesn't do newsgroups. It's not a solution for you, it's
just that I realized I don't have to ever deal with this anymore, which I
hadn't thought about.
Seriously, the netiquette *demands* that you trim previous mails to keep
only the necessary.
There is no technical requirement for this. I don't think any of this
would be grounds for banning here, so as long as you get your point
across, I don't see a problem.
There is the notion that if you make your posts annoying to read, less
people will read them. But for this specific instance, I found 9 lines of
context not to be a burden, even though 5 lines were unneeded.
If everybody was doing like you, we would end up having posts hundreds
of lines long, most of which being noise.
I typically trim down my posts to the relevant information. I do it
because it makes my point come across much better.
-Steve
