On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 08:10, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think this is the key issue. We only want the context of an email that is > > being responded to present, and the rest trimmed. Automated trimming or > > collapsing doesn't do this well. > > It's not just about MUA's that hide things. The MUA _I_ use hides > excessive quoting, but then when I look at the results on lore I often > get completely unreadable results because somebody quoted several > hundred lines of patch or whatever. And then I scrolling through the > thread is suddenly a major PITA. So you don't think that lore is an MUA? If lore didn't summaries the headers, that would be a bug. But that fact that it doesn't summarise the quotes isn't? NeilBrown > > So I do think that the whole excessive quoting on the lists should > just be a hard no, the same way html is. > > Linus >
