+1 I'd be thankful if quotes gave only the minimal necessary context. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would anyone else like to see a move back to old-school netiquette on > Racket-Users, regarding minimal quoting in posts? > > The huge top-quoting and bottom-quoting on the Racket list of late is > getting harder for me to skim than it needs to be. > > Pre-Web, it used to generally be good netiquette to do minimal quoting, > with replies in-line. Quoting the entire message was for non-technical > Eudora users on corporate email lists, and for September frosh who just > arrived on campus and discovered Usenet. > > I know some of the readers nowadays collapse quoted text, like the Google > Groups Web interface does, but not everyone uses those readers, nor thinks > that is a good idea. Threaded readers have been around for 20 years, and > helped solve the problem of being able to very easily look backward in the > thread, to see what was being responded to, if one did not already know > from following the thread. > > If this annoys only me, I can tolerate it. I mention this in case there > are a good number of us, and it's happening for no reason. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/56EBE671.300%40neilvandyke.org > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAFUu9R7T77CFdanFqKgihgVfSJmggfhF-VfGtOaELjx1tFEoaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
