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.
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