No remembering the context or having a mail reader sufficiently smart to pull up whatever context is needing is insulting to the group whose time you are spending my writing a post, old school wise.
Thanks, Chris Austin-Lane Sent from a cell phone On Nov 25, 2012, at 15:43, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Chris, > > That etiquette applies to snipping posts down the thread aways. 3 or 4 > previous posts down depending on context. Snipping the immediately preceding > post you are replying to including the poster's name is discourteous and > insulting to that poster and also destroys the context of the reply tending > to make it less meaningful or relevant.. > > Edgar > as moderator > > > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:35 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote: > >> >> I personally find the endlessly growing requoted and unsnipped emails to be >> a breach of nettiquette. Top posting and quoting the entire thread is >> traditionally frowned on in text only fora, and was not normal until about >> ten years ago when MS Outlook became so common. >> >> On my phone the bandwidth is not neglegible and there is an additional cost >> of scrolling time to skip all the quoted stuff. >> >> I'd buy the argument about context if people actually read carefully enough >> for that to matter but there is so much talking past one another that the >> context doesn't matter. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris Austin-Lane >> Sent from a cell phone >> >> On Nov 25, 2012, at 4:52, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Joe, >>> >>> It destroys context when you snip off parts of the post you are replying to. >>> >>> And it's impolite as well. >>> >>> Additionally the bandwidth saved from a few lines of TEXT is totally >>> insignificant. >>> >>> I tell you this a co-moderator. >>> >>> Edgar >>> >>> >>> >>> On Nov 24, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Joe wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Edgar, >>>> >>>> How fallibly un-perspicacious of you! >>>> >>>> I *always* do that, and always have done. >>>> >>>> Saves bandwidth, which is a commodity. >>>> >>>> --Joe >>>> >>>> > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Ouch! I thought we were being nice to each other? >>>> > >>>> > And btw what's this sudden snipping compulsion you have to snip off the >>>> > bottom of the posts you are responding to? >>>> [snip] > > > >
