[time-nuts] Administrivia: Trimming Quoted Messages

[Jason Rabel]

John,

A little side-topic that I've had in the back of my head for a while. Has
there been any discussion about maybe starting up a wiki and / or forum?
Maybe we could even carve out our own corner of the wikipedia if nobody
wants to run a wiki locally? There's so much great info that people provide
in these conversations and put on their own websites, but there's no
organization.

Jason

> 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!