Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 13:50:37 12/09/00
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On December 09, 2000 at 16:15:51, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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. Unfortunately, this practice of yours does not work! People will snip lines with a single ">" without indicating having done so. A splendid example of this was supplied by *you* in this very same thread! I follow the personal rule of never snipping such lines, because people (including me) do skip messages. Such snipping can have the effect of making the other person look like an idiot unless the original unsnipped version is read. I consider such snipping a type of subtle troll along with declaring an idea bad without giving a reason. You've done both in this thread! > >bruce
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