[time-nuts] Administrivia: Trimming Quoted Messages

[John Ackermann N8UR]

Yes, the archive is threaded.

John
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Bill Hawkins said the following on 01/29/2007 01:19 PM:
> 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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