Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Beverly Howard wrote:
[snip]
Having participated in "e-forums" for over a quarter century starting
with dial up "bulletin boards" through pre-internet compuserve, then
nntp and now web base forums, I _know_ that "full quoting" was born
from the needs of primitive software, slow connections and terrible
nntp readers such as outlook express. Full quoting has, unfortunately,
been preserved by the fact that many newsreaders, email clients
(mozilla included) and web forums _default_ to "full quoting" in their
composer settings. ...
[snap]
I find full quoting a convenient first draft, and I'm competent enough
to select and snip the irrelevant material. I assume others on this
forum are equally capable, but they don't prune because a) they can't be
bothered; or b) they think they're not supposed to. The latter view is
probably from dealing with tech support staff elsewhere, who demand that
every message contain the entire top-posted thread.
I don't have a link off the top of my head, but I seem to recall that
the organizers of this newsgroup have established a policy of pruning,
for the reasons Bev stated elsewhere in her post. And I'm happy to
follow it. There's nothing more annoying than to scroll down three or
four screens of quoted quoted quoted quotes to a single line of new text
saying, "Yep, I agree."
You're right, Paul, as I seem to recall "pruning" is the requested
method......it's just that Beverly seems to be pruning trees off at
almost ground level. Makes reading her responses, some of which provide
real good suggestions, difficult, at least to me!
Daniel
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