Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread kenta
I AGREE. :D :D :D /me ducks On 7/9/08, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: list_admin_message On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Labitt, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one change that? Sorry to be such a noob. [followed by tons of quoted text] People: When sending replies --

RE: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread Labitt, Bruce
Sorry to the list. I'll try to be more considerate. Regards, Bruce From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kenta Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:33 AM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: Please trim quoted text

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread Ric Werme
People: When sending replies -- especially one-line replies -- please trim the hundreds or thousands of lines of quoted text which add nothing to the context of the message. The server actually started rejecting messages in this thread because they had exceeded the 40 kilobyte message The

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
Thank you, Ben, for speaking up. It sucks to have to play cop/babysitter but things were getting totally out of hand here and our normally good S/N ratio is definitely worth defending. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread David Berube
FWIW, I'd also recommend the QuoteCollapse ThunderBird extension if you're on Thunderbird - it collapses all qoutes to just the first line by default, and you can click a little plus icon to expand them if you need the full details. Take it easy, David Berube

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM, David Berube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'd also recommend the QuoteCollapse ThunderBird extension if you're on Thunderbird - it collapses all qoutes to just the first line by default, and you can click a little plus icon to expand them if you need the

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM, David Berube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'd also recommend the QuoteCollapse ThunderBird extension if you're on Thunderbird ... GMail has a similar feature. But it's important to realize that the hidden quotes are still there in the message; *your* mail

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:11:29 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] People: When sending replies -- especially one-line replies -- please trim the hundreds or thousands of lines of quoted text which add nothing to the context of the message. The server actually Another thing which

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-10 Thread David Berube
Not to nitpick, but we will still have to trim quotes. Quote collapsing is great for the readers, but it won't help with message size limits on the server :-) I'm not suggesting that people don't trim their quotes, just that there are clientside approaches to ameliorating the visual, if

Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

2008-07-09 Thread Ben Scott
list_admin_message On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Labitt, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one change that? Sorry to be such a noob. [followed by tons of quoted text] People: When sending replies -- especially one-line replies -- please trim the hundreds or thousands of lines of