Posting a few lines of new text along with 1500 lines/100K of quoted
text from previous posts been recognized as poor netiquette for two
decades. Good netiquette is to use your mail client to edit the quoted
text down to the lines or paragraphs to which your current comments
apply or respond. [1]
Da ich keine Zeit habe, Dir einen kurzen Brief zu schreiben,
schreibe ich Dir einen langen. -- Goethe
Not to mention the annoyance of posts that include 100+ K of trivial
images and PR bumpf from a cited web page and the choice of software
options that duplicate everything you post in alternative formats --
typically 7 bit ASCII text and HTML -- with everything base64 encoded.
Well, I realize that I'm an old-school crank. [2] Now everybody just
clicks one virtual button or another, whacks out a few lines and hits
send without any clue to what's really being sent. But I'm getting
tired of decoding or reformatting nearly every FW post and then
editing out the superfluous 70% to 90%.
- Mike
[1] This is unlike business or highly technical email in which having
full prior text of a (possibly lengthy) exchange in every message
is insurance against introducing errors into the business or
technology process.
[2] Isn't it curious that there can be an "old school" with regard to
anything mediated by the internet?
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
/V\
mspen...@tallships.ca /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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