On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
> Gmail has folding, Thunderbird has folding, GNUS has folding, and I > assume most email clients have folding / hiding of quotes. > > As stated, some mailing lists wish to have the whole thread, to make > reading a reply separately possible. > > Snipping of sections I do not reply to is OK, but selectively snipping > out of sections I reply to make it possible to change the original > meaning. Agreed. There is a tradeoff. By keeping the whole conversation you do not take things out of context. But you make it more difficult to quickly get the main point. It is subjective what is "out of context" but I have actually never seen an argument because of this on the mailing lists I participate in. > So I think no snipping is not a major problem. Well, some people view it as a problem and because it is listed on the List Netiquette (http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc7) in my opinion we should follow it, or argue to change the Netiquette. I actually like the rule as it is; I just didn't follow it because I thought the opposite was the encouraged behavior. Scott
