crackdown 2.0

Jeff Wilson · 10 Jun 2010, 04:36 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:36:21 -0500
Subject: (urth) crackdown 2.0
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilxeCZdKcXRtEwIk2-2Ckm8QaPh5DmBcCPtlL0c at mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTilxeCZdKcXRtEwIk2-2Ckm8QaPh5DmBcCPtlL0c at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4C106BC5.9040205 at io.com>

On 6/9/2010 6:20 AM, Jonathan Laidlow wrote:
> While we're being kind to digest readers, it would help if some of you
> could delete the irrelevant portions of the messages you're replying to.
> Sometimes the digests have one message, which contains 6-7 previous
> messages, and they become very difficult to read...

I agree that quote trimming is a very worthy practice, even if digest 
readers are often the worst offenders.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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