[TR] Replies to List

[Greg Lemon]

So when I reply to an email in Gmail on my phone, which is the world I and
probably a lot of people who use the list are operating in, I see a blank
page to enter my note and three little dots below, that is it.  I know I
can click on the three little dots and see what they contain, but once
again, on my phone I see the next email if it is short, unless I scroll
down.   In 90 some percent of the emails I send out I have no reason to
further explore the three dots, or scroll down further, hard habit to
break.  Just don't think about it.  Realize you are trying to remind us to
think about it, but I think you have an uphill, losing battle.

Greg Lemon
TR250

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:01 PM Mark Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:

> On 1/9/26 1:19 PM, William Smith wrote:
> > Listers, Please, please, please refrain from replying to the digest or
> > repeating entire digests in your replies.  Please reply to /include only
> > the the specific thread to which you wish to reply.  Once again the list
> > has become almost impossible to decipher recently.
>
> In my experience, your words of wisdom are falling on deaf ears.  Years
> ago I tried various times to try and get people to edit their replies.
> Back 20 - 30 years ago people had smaller quotas on their mailboxes.  I
> spent a lot of time removing addresses from various lists because the
> mail bounced back because the user was over quota.  Especially AOL
> addresses, they were the worst.  One time I actually did some math and
> found that something like 28% of the email errors I was dealing with
> came from the 8% of list subscribers with .aol addresses.
>
> But all to no avail.  People will not take the time and minimal effort
> to edit their replies.  That's the way it is, and we all have to suffer
> from their laziness or incompetence or whatever reason they don't bother
> editing replies.  Just click the button, who cares about what a mess it
> makes.
>
> mjb, the disgruntled curmudgeon.
>
>
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