On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:25:06 +0300 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've refrained from replying to this thread so far, as it seemed to be a > caricature of a bikeshedding discussion, but for what it's worth, I > often find myself in the opposite situation when I'm annoyed that > someone trimmed too much of the discussion in their replies. After hitting "page down" 3 or 4 times and seeing only quoted text, I then stop and just ignore the email. Yes, there's been emails I purposely ignored because of this that had asked me to respond near the end. Oh well. Then they ask, "why didn't you respond?" pointing out the email I was to respond to. And I would reply, "I never saw the request because of too much quoted text". > > Yes, replying to a 3000-lines patches with a full quote ana d a > Reviewed-by tag at the very bottom, without any other comment, is > annoying. On the other hand, trimming everything but the few lines to > which you reply means that it gets much more annoying to jump in the > discussion in the middle of a mail thread. There's a difference between > trimming unrelated parts, and removing related content that happens not > to be the direct subject of a particular reply. I just replied to an email yesterday that cut too much off, and I had to make a note about that, and put things back in. What's worse, is if you are having a technical debate with someone, and they trim out everything that might go against their argument, but leave anything that supports their argument. I've seen that happen quite a bit. I should write a book called "The art of trimming". ;-) -- Steve
