Yes, the archive is threaded. John ----
Bill Hawkins said the following on 01/29/2007 01:19 PM: > John, > > It all depends on whether or not I can extract a thread from > the archives. I've not tried that. If we have a threads then > there's no reason not to delete the second and further levels, > except lack of knowledge of cursor select and delete. > > If the archive isn't threaded, then I do what I do now - > delete the quoted messages from my mailbox. This becomes a > problem when the thread mutates and forks into other threads. > Haven't seen as much of that here as on other lists. > > Seems to me the problem of quoting the whole thread is that the > mail server fills up exponentially. That's a real good reason > not to get carried away. > > Bill Hawkins > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:58 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: [time-nuts] Administrivia: Trimming Quoted Messages > > Hi Folks -- > > We often have long threads here on time-nuts with multiple layers of > reply and counter-reply. They make great reading, but particularly when > posters reply at the bottom of the message, it can become hard to scroll > through to find the new material. We have a thread now where there are > some 200 lines of quoted text before there's any new content. > > When you reply to messages, please consider trimming out material that's > not necessary to create context for the reply; very often the earlier > parts are no longer relevant to the matter that's the subject of the > reply. That will help keep messages shorter and easier to read. > > I'll express no opinion about the merits of top vs. bottom vs. > interspersed quoting; that's a topic for a religious war! > > Thanks! > > John > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
