Of course it's perfectly possible to limit the length of emails but who
is to act as censor? Some topics may need greater length than others.
The advantage of including all (or most) emails in a thread is that if
one wishes to be reminded of previous matters discussed in the thread,
it easy to simply scroll down - otherwise the laborious business of
trawling through previous emails on the topic is necessary
And if the latest is always put at the top of a thread the reader can
always choose not to read on.
In short, win -win for both those who just wish to scan the latest
message in a topic (and presumably remember all previous) and those who
may wish to remind themselves of early comments.
regards,
Martyn
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From: Wayne <wst...@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: Lute net <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2017, 0:20
Subject: [LUTE] Shorter emails
I suppose I could make the robot cut everything off after 50 lines.
Wayne
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "G. C." <[1]kalei...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [LUTE] Shorter emails
> Date: September 5, 2017 at 6:40:36 PM EDT
> To: Lutelist <[2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
>
> Dear lutelist,
> is there a way to remove all those endless quotings of earlier mails
in
> the string, as well as the (also) endless links that have been
> displayed in the previous, (endless) mails? Is there no way to get
yhe
> messages slimmer?
> B.R.
> G.
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