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On 18/04/2016 23:11, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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> No. How much harder does it make it to follow? |
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It makes it *much* harder to know what you are answering to. To find |
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that out, I have to find and click on the previous email, see that |
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person's message then go back to yours and fit both together in my brain. |
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Why do I have to do this? Because you stripped out everything from the |
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prior mail. |
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On this list, there has been a long-standing tradition that we try to |
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use inter-leaved replies and strip out irrelevant sections for previous |
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mails. We do this because it makes the thread readable and |
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understandable to the possibly 1000s of other people reading it. |
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Read through all the posts of today that have more than one reply, |
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you'll quickly see why this method is by far the best. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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