--- In [email protected], Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The general rule is to only quote what you need to make the context clear. > This should be down 'bottom quote' style and/or inline if needed. This is actually a major pet peeve of mine and I find it frustrating to see people post small messages that have multiple copies of the Yahoo Groups footer, large corporate confidentiality sigs, extraneous material or all of the above in some combination. My favourites are posts that have 1 line of original content and multiple lines of unnecessary material. I think the worst I have seen so far is 250+ lines of quoted material to one line of new content. I think that people should take the time to trim their posts and make it so that it is easy to parse through their message. Especially on a list that gets this much traffic. It doesn't help though that so many email clients make top posting a default (or only) option for replies and don't make it easy to single out a section to reply to. > OOI why do you use the digest ? Its easier to browse through a single mail message than it is to read 100+ emails. In any case its not relevant :-) Its a fairly popular option for Yahoo Groups and people not taking the time to trim their posts makes it a nightmare to read.
