Irony alert. On Friday, March 18, 2016, Benjamin Greenman <[email protected]> wrote:
> +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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','racket-dev%[email protected]');> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','racket-dev%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAFUu9R7T77CFdanFqKgihgVfSJmggfhF-VfGtOaELjx1tFEoaw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAFUu9R7T77CFdanFqKgihgVfSJmggfhF-VfGtOaELjx1tFEoaw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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/CAL3TdOPvsfELkYKvqvNgiBQz89S9dHCiZGgJOQVPzKGUjOaf-A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
