Over-quoting (was: Re: tangoGPS 0.9.5 is out)

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 14:36:21 CET 2009


Neil Jerram <neiljerram at googlemail.com> writes:
> 2009/1/25 arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de>:
>>>> ps: please cut the mail to the necessary minimum when replying.
>>>>
>>> Sure, didn't realise it was an issue. Is it for bandwith/storage,
>>> readibility or something else?
>>
>> well, it is a tad annoying -- to have  mail that stretches over several
>> pages with basically nothing but a single line appended.
>
> The right client could handle that for you; as Google Mail (for example) does.

Are you serious? Quotes are needed to remember context but you suggest
to quote the whole mail with no apparent reason and to hide them
later? WTF?

I'm so tired of all that over-quoting and top-posting! Can't you
people have a little respect for others? Take a look at RFC1855, at
least it has some sane reasoning.

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