Fred Drake <fdr...@gmail.com> writes: > Most importantly, insufficient trimming makes many of us start to > ignore threads we'd otherwise want to read more carefully or > participate in, because the tedium of wading through all the quotes to > make sure we catch all the content.
Absolutely. This is a significant reason to publicly, and frequently, respond to request inline-replied, suitably-trimmed messages: to help newcomers reading the list understand what constitutes an easy-to-read message, and to maximise their opportunity to write messages that won't simply be skipped as too much effort to read. -- \ “The WWW is exciting because Microsoft doesn't own it, and | `\ therefore, there's a tremendous amount of innovation | _o__) happening.” —Steve Jobs | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
