yea, that works. not much else. The problem I have is really with receiving a daily digests of posts. The server can try to limit quoted text to 20 lines or something, like the LYRIS list manager does, but then it only works when it can recognize the difference. I've decided to try to remember to erase most of the chain, switch my settings to get separate emails rather than digests, and keep the archive link handy in my web browser. The latter works the best, and would be a good solution for list managers too, to include a link to the current page in the archive in every post.
The wish list item? Why the hell doesn't someone invent a readable quoting format. The old reliable '>' prefix for every line is really a pain when it splits lines erratically. It would be a fairly simple programming task to train a text reader not to do that it would seem to me! Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:16 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] There must be a way! > > > Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Is there any way, other than NOT using reply and quoting by > hand, to > > avoid this effect? > > > er. is that to say you don't like minimalistic quoting by > hand? I tend > to prefer that because then it absolutely clear what is being > responded > to, and if the quoting is inadequate then readers can rightly > complain > too. In this case I'm not quoting the part describing "this effect" > because I'm not sure what the effect is. I mean, a quote > from a digest > e-mail ought to be complete, if left untouched, right? Now, I don't > prefer but also don't strongly object to such quoting. I > does at least > communicate that the particular reader is reading in batch which is > potentially a useful insight to have about a correspondent. > If someone > feels they are being taken out of context, they can always pull URLs > from the archive to prove it. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
