Hi Thomas,
t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> As penance for my often low signal to noise ratio ;) and a small token
> of my appreciation for the Org community and its product, I've drafted a
> description of the mailing list for Worg, which AFAICT lacked one:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org
James Harkins writes:
> On Dec 29, 2012 11:23 PM, "Thomas S. Dye" wrote:
>> Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers?
>
> I don't know where to find published guidelines
As penance for my often low signal to noise ratio ;) and a small token
of my appreciation for the Org commu
Nick Dokos writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> >
> > > Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers?
> >
> > In brief: Don't respond at all to a digest message.
> >
> > Instead, […]
>
> Tom did not respond to a digest message.
Indeed; I di
On 30/12/12 05:01, Nick Dokos wrote:
PS. FWIW, my guidelines are to trim as much as possible. I include the
question(s) that I respond to and insert my answers inline. I try to
include enough context so that somebody reading just that piece of mail
can make (at least some) sense of the question
Ben Finney wrote:
> t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
>
> > Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers?
>
> In brief: Don't respond at all to a digest message.
>
> Instead, respond to the actual message you want to respond to; that way,
> your response will include correct
t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:
> Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers?
In brief: Don't respond at all to a digest message.
Instead, respond to the actual message you want to respond to; that way,
your response will include correct fields in the header to preserve th
On Dec 29, 2012 11:23 PM, "Thomas S. Dye" wrote:
> Can you point me to trimming guidelines for digest readers?
I don't know where to find published guidelines, but this is how I try to
handle it:
- Quote just enough to capture the gist of what you're replying to. (As
here -- I'm answering a spec
Hi James,
James Harkins writes:
> Just a reminder to be kind to list members who are receiving digests and TRIM
> QUOTED MATERIAL.
>
> Recently: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/63982
That's me! I want to be kind.
> 48 lines of new content vs 1123 lines of quotes, for a whopping
Just a reminder to be kind to list members who are receiving digests and TRIM
QUOTED MATERIAL.
Recently: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/63982
48 lines of new content vs 1123 lines of quotes, for a whopping signal-to-noise
ratio of 4.27%. Scrolling isn't *that* much fun...
I reali
