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<CAE1XxDHPA7Ekj_=d2qFK1B3hOUWSHVd=vcagvvhn9em1kqz...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 03/11/2013
at 09:57 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>My gmail server has an 'include quoted text' box which is checked
>by default. If it and other ermail servers' defaults were not to
>include quoted text the work required to include great gobbets of
>it repetitively would discourage some posters from doing so.
ITYM that google[1] makes it difficult to do the right thing and makes
it easy to quote the entire message. A decent mail client displays the
original message at the same time[2] as the composition window and
makes it easy to quote selectively . A really good e-mail client makes
it easy to reflow nested quotes; mine, alas, does not do the latter.
[1] Google is far from the only offendor.
[2] It's a matter of taste whether they belong in independent
windows or as two panes in a larger window; I prefer the latter,
but google offers neither.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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