On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:23:32 +1100, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Plus: trimming the original content, so that not the whole email >> thread is repeated in the quote. > >While I'm happy to comply, I disagree with trimming/editing the >thread. Certainly made sense when networks were slower and MUAs were >less sophisticated, but these days I prefer using a MUA which is able to >fold the original content and keep all the content in the message. This >reduces confusion, misunderstanding and incorrect attribution arising >from poor editing and makes it easy to reference the full discussion in >one spot rather than having to go back through messages putting it all >back together. YMMV. > >Tim The problem is that conversations rarely remained confined to a single topic [this thread for example 8-)]. The list servers do have message size limits (independent of any email server limits). It isn't a problem for simple text messages, but a lot of people now are sending MIME messages that include all the text twice (or 3 times) plus embedded HTML+CSS formatting. On some lists, I have seen MIME messages (mostly sent from Google Groups users) that contain - not kidding - 5,000+ lines of hidden HTML+CSS surrounding a few lines of comment. I agree with you that messages should stand alone wrt to the subject they address. It's just that, too often, messages that contain a lot of quoted material have wandered considerably and so are mostly noise. YMMV, George
