[time-nuts] Administrivia: Trimming Quoted Messages

[Bill Hawkins]

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: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] 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

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