Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:15:51 12/09/00
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On December 09, 2000 at 14:50:01, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> When people *do* edit their messages you are >> right. But a lot do *not*. > >I had suggested here several times that "Post with quoting" >option be removed. It would cut down both on wasteful space >usage for archives and, more importantly, on time needed >to read messages. It often takes me more time to find what >was added, a line or two burried somewhere in the middle of >three page of quotes, than to read it once it is found. That's >why the color idea was good. Even two colors would have been >quite useful to separate the new from the old. If "post with quoting" is removed, the forum becomes so gross to use that I will probably use it much less. This place can't subset usenet functionality to such a degree. It takes a long time to read a thread post by post, so often what I do is read every other one, and count on people having quoted the previous post, so I can read both at once. bruce
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