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

[adams at coastal.edu]

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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