Charles Hill wrote:
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> The biggest improvement I can see for the list would be for the
> participants to turn of the "quote previous message" option on their
> email software.
I think this would be a VERY unpopular method. Obviously some
quoting gets to extreme, but some is a must.
Who has a photographic memory of all messages, and can
instantly recall any topic in detal?
After all, if I just replied without quoting and
said "That would be very unpopular", how many would
know what I was jabbering on about?
> I get the list in digest form and can count on seeing the same message
> quoted several times.
With a modern email client, there is really no
use for digest. Mail sorting gives all the benefits
of digesting along with a bagload more, such as
threading, so you can delete an entire topic that
doesn't interest you rather than having to keep
skimming the headers as you flow through the digest.
> Everyone has read the original message.
I think this is VERY far from the truth. With the volume
this traffic gets, I know I myself just skim the headers
and read a handful of interesting sounding ones.
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Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
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