----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Rex" <mrex@xxxxxxx> To: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 7:54 PM > > Stripping quoted text to the relevant would be a HUGE improvement. > > Some Mails arrive with quotations that are extremely hard to read, > due to lack of visual clue, like vertical whitespace and indentation > with quotation character. > > > original comment 1 > > [zz] comment 1zz > > original comment 2 > > original comment 3 > > original comment 4 > > [zz] comment 4zz > [yy] comment 4yy > > original comment 5 > > original sig > > [zz] 2nd sig > > > When the ratio new/quoted is small, then (a) stripping to the relevant > is often inadequate or hasn't been done and (b) explicit top or bottom > posting is preferable. > > Suggestion to [zz]: > - change your quoting style (quoting char, vertical whitespace) > - did you really need to quote "original comment 2", "original comment 3" > and "original sig"? Martin Would that I could change my quoting style. My MUA, supplied by the organisation that supplies most of the world's MUAs, will put in a greater than sign as a quoting char provided you sent me 7bit . But should you use quoted-printable, then there is no quoting character and I am reduced to inserting XML style tags. Mutter, mutter, mutter Tom Petch > Suggestion to [yy]: > - change your quoting style (quoting char, vertical whitespace) > - did you really need to quote anything besides "[zz] comment 4zz" ? > > > -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf