Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:45:07 08/11/99
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On August 11, 1999 at 10:01:13, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >It seems that a reply style has evolved on CCC >where folks quote pages of earlier messages in >order to add a sentence or two at the bottom, >such as "Good point," or some such. > >Since we're dealing here with HTML documents, >i.e. the hypertext, where link already exists >into the previous message, there is no reason >to quote almost anything, much less to quote >the entire messages (which themselves may be >several levels of quoted entire messages). The >only reason one may quote a brief segment would >be to indicate to which item from the earlier >post one is responding. A short fragment identifying >such place ought to be enough. > >The message processing script could even strip off >the quoted items and convert them into a targetted >link which brings up the place in the earlier message >to which the resonse is directed. > >Another helpful step would be to post the guidelines, >with a brief reminder about the most frequent >bad habits at the top of the posting form. > >Even better step would be to remove entirely the >"Post with quoting" option, which stimulates >the wasteful and unhelpful re-copying. That kind >of option may have been useful on some old usenet >access system, where looking at the past messages >would require a much larger effort than clicking >the mouse at the link. In the present situation, by >virtue of promoting the endless re-re-re... quoting, >it only wastes time of the readers while browsing, >as well as the space and the download time of the >archives. <AOL> Me too! </AOL> :-) :-) Dave
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