It's kind-of difficult to understand the mail-list vs web forum other-person's perspective without looking over that other-person's shoulder, but I can't believe that the time spent in searching for what the reply relates to is easily saved by not having to scroll through loads of previous, nested, quoted posts to find that all-important new comment ;-)
Personally, I think the current approach is probably the best compromise you're going to get. docbee doesn't actually advocate not quoting at all - just only quoting the relevant bits. The fact that on the web forum the quoted stuff is in different colours, makes the whole thing much easier to read for me than the mail list I was on before (no doubt that's because I'm using the wrong mail client) - so I'm not complaining either way! "...no complaining from contributors..nope, no way...." I certainly really appreciate your contribution, but as a contributor to many other product concepts, developments and designs over the past 25 years, I find it's often worth reminding oneself that without any users or customers (pain-in-the-arse that they often are), there really isn't much point in making that contribution in the first place ;-) So, I guess to sum it up, a little less verbatium quoting from the email brigade, and a bit more from the web forum brigade - then we'd all be happy ... -ish. Would that be about right? -- Patrick Dixon _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
