There are 3 messages totaling 92 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Question about the quote limit rule 2. Admin: Question about the quote limit rule (2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:11:46 -0400 From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......> Subject: Re: Question about the quote limit rule On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:15:51 McLisa wrote, > Instead of just nagging about the limited quotations in > reply rule, I've decided to ask the posters' opinion. As far as I'm personally concerned, I'd prefer to keep the rule. You see, I print the digest out (and keep it in a series of binders), so a lot of paper gets used up when people quote the whole e-mail. Even more if they're on digest, and hence wind up copying *all* the previous day's messages. Also, it's very frustrating to have to keep looking on down the page, trying to figure out what parts are new and what are old. It used to be that the old material was marked out by > preceding each line; but that's not always true today. Furthermore, let me warn you: there's a slippery slope here. I'm on another list that has never had a quotation limit; and it gets absurd when someone hits "reply", copies the whole of the digest they're replying to--and then someone else hits "reply" to *that*. I've scrolled down through multiple repeats of the same *digest*, tacked end to end in a single multi-page e-mail. (You will not be surprised to hear that I never got in the habit of printing that list out.) If it were simply a question of increasing the length of permitted quotations, that would be fine. The truth is, though, that that's not what's happening. We're getting whole letters reprinted; and it's because of the "reply" business. However, in all fairness, I have to add that I have heard that there's a problem with deleting the replied-to message when using a cellphone. Personally, I never hit "reply" when sending a post to FORNI-L. I always start a new letter. However, that may again be hard to do with cellphones if one wants to quote part of the previous message. On a PC, you just cut-and-paste, of course. Greer gwatson2@r....... http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:47:41 -0400 From: "Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@a.......> Subject: Re: Admin: Question about the quote limit rule >Instead of just nagging about the limited quotations in reply rule, I've decided >to ask the posters' opinion. I like the quote limit rule. It keeps the emails easier to read and cleaner. I follow other groups where I've seen previous message piled upon previous message...where the reply is irrelevant to the preceding message and all you have is a bundle of "gunk" at the bottom of a single sentence reply. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:17:26 -0700 From: Stephanie Kellerman <stequina@i.......> Subject: Re: Admin: Question about the quote limit rule I'd like to keep the rule also because this can end up very long with the stuff yahoo adds. On my phone I just hit the text hit cut and that is it. That is what I just did on my iPhone Steph ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 18 Jun 2013 to 20 Jun 2013 (#2013-90) **************************************************************
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