Mau, [M] wrote: M> Please note that if I quote you full message without any trimming is M> because some people may have deleted your message and not have it in M> their message base, or may not be using a threaded view or may be M> using the ticker virtual folder.
Your response surprises me.
On the one hand we're discussing an introduction that is 2 or three
lines long and questioning its redundancy.
And now you're trying to compare it to quoting my *entire* 55+ lines of
original message text.
*Clearly*, it's a matter of compromise and reaching a generally accepted
point without being excessive. Though we can reasonably make concessions
by including helpful reminders/information in an introduction to a
reply, to quote the entire message in the context of a discussion list
is absolutely unreasonable. In different settings it's not, and I do
quite often quote complete original messages in replies outside
discussion lists.
I do think you see my point but just wish to be difficult.
Introductions of the type you so criticize are not disallowed on this
list. However, overquoting is.
Note that we *do* quote some of the original text when we do reply and
your mischievous counter-argument would hold water *only* if we didn't
quote any original text at all.
Now, can we please stop this nitpicking about how members choose to word
introductions to their replies.
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