On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 05:42:24AM +0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > What is necessary or unnecessary often depends on who is doing the > replying. In this mailing list, people tend to include TOO MUCH of the > original post.
Thank you Doc for helping remind everyone about this. Like you I am annoyed by having to go through pages worth of green lines (quotes are colored this way in my configuration of mutt) just to see... one lousy "me too" at the bottom or nothing at all (because the lousy "me too" was put on top). > I think the best rule of thumb is to include only that little portion > of the email to which to are replying, because the person can easily > go back to the original anyway, and because this list does not just > rain on my inbox but floods/deluges/overruns/ chokes/drowns/etc my > inbox. And people who miss a post or two can always do a quick search in our archives[1] and see the full context of the thread. The Lurker interface is pretty good at handling the threads, and if you go to the first message of a thread you can use the arrow buttons beside the "reply" link to go through the entire thread. There's even a tree view if you wish to take one path or the other, instead of going through the thread in its entirety. [1] http://marc.free.net.ph > Please cut, cut, cut, cut!! :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
