Interesting suggestions about quoting and posting

[Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)]

[also an intentional full quote]

Markus Schönhaber schreef:
> [this one time an intentional full quote]
> 
> Allen Meyers:
>> Markus Schönhaber:
>>> Charlie Gray:
> 
>>>> So do you only quote the last text you are replying to and not the
>>>> previous people or irrelevant paragraphs?
>>> I only quote that part(s) of the previous post that are needed to put my
>>> reply/replies into context (that may, in some cases, include even parts
>>> of "pre-previous" posts - if they're needed to put one's own reply into
>>> an understandable context).
>>> Of course, this results in more effort for the poster than just typing
>>> something at the point where the mail client chose to place the cursor
>>> and hitting "Send". But the benefit for the reader is IMO enormous. And
>>> whoever is too lazy to undergo this effort should think about whether it
>>> really is a good idea to make things easier for himself by thus making
>>> it harder for the potential reader - from whom he might expect help.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>  mks
>> Hi mks:
>> I found this indeed a learning curve, probably more for the list in
>> terms of being the resource, and not the individual asking the
>> question, but is this what you referred to in that I cut that part of
>> your msg that was not relevant to my reply. I truly want to know and
>> not intending to start a in dept back and forth.
> 
> Yep, that's essentially what I meant.
> Just two remarks (even though they're not much more than nitpicking):
> - My "Regards mks" doesn't add any value to the topic, so there's no
> point in quoting it.
> - Most mail clients can be configured to prepend the name of the quoted
> author to the quote (I'm pretty sure, it's possible in Gmail too). That
> way one can easily see - in combination with the level of indentation -
> who wrote what.
> 
> Regards
>   mks
> 
> 


You know what? I find this subthread a really rare but interesting and
very helpful gem. I think that every newcomer (and oldtimer) on the list
should read this.
Something good came of this trolling and ranting after all.

-- 
Amedee

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