On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:08 PM, zap calmstorm@posteo.de wrote:
On 06/18/2017 04:59 PM, Brendan Sleight wrote:
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 6:35 PM, ronwirring@safe-mail.net wrote:
No. I maintain that I prefer an email to display all previous
No doubt you do, but this is a community. “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” - Spock
Luke - I would be grateful if you could reduce the members on this list to those who can follow the RFC.
I will follow the rules now if you want, I just didn't know what they all were. That's all.
no problem zap.
btw zap also didn't remove extraneous context (in his last message to the list) so i asked him also to respect context-cutting (aka "trimming"):
http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#toppost
Posting a "me too" comment at the bottom of a 100+ line message is no better because people have to scroll all the way down through 100+ lines they've already read in order to see your one-liner. One word comes to mind for that: frustrating.
The generally accepted "right way" of doing things is called "inline posting", whereby you insert your comments straight after that on which you are commenting, having stripped unnecessary text from the original quoted text. The end result is something which makes much more sense because it reads like a conversation.
I should only keep previous messages that are relevant right?
previous *bits* of a message that are relevant: it's called "trimming".
thanks for agreeing to follow the rules.
ron: if zap can agree immediately once he understands that it's inconveniencing people, is there a good reason (which benefits the project) why you do not wish to?
l.