[Python-ideas] Posting style (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Wed Jan 11 01:44:43 CET 2012

On 10Jan2012 17:30, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote: | On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:13:42AM -0500, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: | > I don't really understand the objection. My mail client hides unbroken | > quotes at the bottom of an email, so that I don't see anything except | > what you quoted (if I read my own email), plus my signature. I take it | > yours doesn't do this? || When I do googling through web-archives I use web browser to read | what I found. Google, in my experience, produces the most relevant | results.

It is worth mentioning (since I routinely see it missed it these discussions) that leaving huge chunks of untrimmed quotes makes it much harder to find the relevant archived message because of all the irrelevant keyword hits.

Quote trimming helps put relevant stuff in the email flow and keeps irrelevant stuff out.

Cheers,

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

I swear to god, officer, I'm fixing this bridge. Just go divert traffic.

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