[MR] Redundancy in Posts - ToTtrim or Not to Trim

[Scott K. Ellis]

On 5/19/05, adams at coastal.edu <adams at coastal.edu> wrote:
> Am I the only one out here who kind of likes the redundancy of untrimmed posts?
> It helps me to get a picture of which comments the writer is addressing in
> reply - sometimes it's hard to keep track.  I guess that one person replying to
> a simgle post is one kind of case, and a
> Traditional-Inimitable-Feisty-Merry-Rose-Hoo-Hah is another - sometimes we are
> responding to multiple posts rather than one in particular.
> 
> How about when I don't know that something is going to become a TIFMR-Hoo-Hah,
> and delete the original post?  Quoting and responding to bits out of context
> can turn a simple TIFMR-Hoo-Hah into a TIFMR-Weapons-of-Mass
> Destruction-Hoo-Hah.

So quote the stuff you're replying to.  But for crying out loud, we
don't need quotes of the 5 copies of the list trailers and other
assorted garbage that goes along with it.  Please folks, what is so
hard about following the rules of basic netiquette?  Lazyness is NOT a
virtue.

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Scott K. Ellis