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

[Phillip Jones]

Lol at your references. I still like fires....


Personally, I much prefer that people NOT trim messages; I like to have the
whole thread there on a single message. I find this extremely helpful when
conducting complex business across cultures or languages. I find it tedious
to wade through past messages to find whatever it is others are responding
to. I'm unaware that trimming has ever been elevated to "long-established
net etiquette". I hadn't realized that the technology was old enough that
anything could be considered "established". I also find it odd that in this
area, the communications protocols to communicate with obsolete
technologies (300 baud modems required trimming) are the same as with our
new cutting edge tech (ooh I can read email on my WATCH now).

The third-grade child of a friend brought home a letter from her teacher
requesting a conference at which to discuss the child's incessant rudeness.
Seems the little brat responded "yes ma'am" or "no ma'am" as appropriate to
the question. The teacher found this insufferable. Go figure.


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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 6:07 PM
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] Redundancy in Posts - ToTtrim or Not to Trim

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.

Reason enough not to trim?  Dunno.  Just a thought - Lina
Work cited:  AA Arson. (2005). Putting Out the Fire with Gasoline.  PITA
Publishers...

>I think we can all
>agree that when someone (especially a digest user)
>fires off a response without clipping redundant
>information, that that is an eyesore (and could even
>amount to longer download times for those on dialup).




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