On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 1:02:54 PM UTC+1, Reto Brunner wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 04:36:32AM -0700, Manlio Perillo wrote: > > I consider polite to use the interleaved reply style and to trim the > > original message as much as possible. It requires time and thinking, > > something that seems to be rare nowadays. > > And yet you are right now also not doing it, adding to the problem. >
For this reason I wrote that I feelt a bit uncomfortable when I'm replying to this thread. I wanted to quote text from both ohir and kortschak, but it was not possible. In your case you removed all the extra text, and it is good since you quoted only the necessary text. > Then again, not everyone uses a mail client where things like this is > obvious, some prefer to use gmail for example. Now, gmail doesn't care > about threading and automatically top / bottom posts (not sure which > direction). > I'm using gmail. > > People aren't in the 80s anymore where a 72 char limit was nice, due to > the screen size. Automatic line wrapping is a thing since a while, so are > clients that strip (or hide) the quoted message trail. > The problem with gmail, IMHO, is that it wrap lines *only* after you send the message, not while you are editing it. This causes problem when I'm trying to format the text, e.g. when I write a bullet list. I'm not the only one with this issue. > So in short: get used to it :) > Well, it is a simple solution. However the current situation makes it hard to read long threads, especially when you don't start to read them from the start. Manlio Perillo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
