Mark Knecht wrote: > > I've been receiving a lot of emails where all I see is a statement > from the person posting in (I assume) the forum but not quoting any of > the test that he or she is responding to. This makes it pretty much > impossible for me to say much of anything in context so I'm just > deleting these without much attention. > > So far today it seems like this must be at least 50% of the traffic. > > Are others seeing this also? Is anything about this caused on my end? > > If this is happening because the default in the forum is to not > quote the previous part of the thread I can completely understand > that. That's the way a forum should work since you can see the post > immediately above. However if that sort of post in the forum is sent > to the email list without any context it's almost useless here I > think. This is a fundamental difference between Forums and the mailing list. In the forum, replies are always shown in ascending order by post time, so it is not necessary to quote a post above it. Mailing list users could work around this by configuring your email client to show posts in a threaded view. Thunderbird supports this. Ahh, the joys of merging two distinct discussion communities into one pot. Who's idea was this again?
