* Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22-01-2002 12:13]:

> Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/01/2002 (22:12) :
> > You can't. It's rude anyway. The amount of time you spend trimming stuff
> > to just the relevant stuff is _more_ than outweghed by the time saved
> > to the list members as a whole, not to mention the readability of the
> > mail archives and everything else.
> 
> Bullshit. Get a better editor or learn to use vim.
> 
> In Alexander Skwar's signature in another thread here I found two links
> that should be interesting for others as well.
> 
> How to quote:  
>    http://quote.6x.to 
>    http://learn.to/quote (german) 

Apart from the useful links, you're missing the point. Cameron was
saying that the amount of time spent trimming is _outweighed_ by the
time saved. That means that he means that one _should_ trim!

-- 
René Clerc                      - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same
time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.
-Jane Addams

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