[Greenbuilding] Trimming messages was: Energy and the Internet

[Keith Winston]

To my mind, the thing we want to encourage is consciousness around 
quoted message length. It's rare that one needs every word of every 
previous message on a subject to understand completely what the current 
message is getting at. Judicious quoting is a lot different from leaving 
everything there, or chopping everything out.

Of course, I'd point out that appropriate Subject lines is also a useful 
consideration ;-)

Keith


Reuben Deumling wrote:
> sure I'm all for differing opinions, but if you follow this (or any other
> list) in digest form, the extra(neous) repetition is a lot less interesting,
> and can be downright tedious. As has been pointed out before, this
> correspondence is archived, and since some of us do try to trim our posts
> you can't expect a given archived message to contain the entire thread, so
> your method would be only marginally successful when retrieving a given
> message from the archives.
> Thanks.
> Reuben Deumling
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 7:45 AM, <bilrob at silcom.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Is this over quoting thing a posted rule or something that some want for
>> personal reasons?
>>
>> I find that it is better use of my time when I choose to follow a thread
>> to be
>> able to open the latest email and read it through rather than have to open
>> each
>> post.
>>
>> Differing opinions and needs make for an interesting world dontcha think?
>>
>> Bill R
>>
>>
>>     
>