On Thursday 03 July 2003 19:18, Shivanischal A wrote: > I believe very much in the spirit of mailing lists and will never commit > any undesirable activity.
I'm not saying that you have been committing any undesirable acts -- and AFAIK you haven't -- yet ;-) > I got the idea is when i browsed thru the Usenet Discussion Forums using > Google's web-interface to the Usenet. If u go their site, u can see this. > The UI look very cluttered with the previous posts appearing along with > newer posts (as part of same message). Like I said it is *your* responsibility to trim posts, your mail client (or whatever you're using) isn't going to do it for you (not in any sensible fashion anyway because the technology just isn't there yet). So again ... > > And what's wrong with doing to what the rest of us do -- that is, remove > > the unnecessary parts of the previous post and adding your comments > > underneath the parts of the previous post that you are commenting on? > I thought it would have been good if > someone/something took care to remove the earlier posts even if the person > posting it forgets to do so. Most of the time you don't want to completely remove the previous post(s) from your reply, Sensible use of quoting helps the flow of the discussion so that people can jump in in the middle of a thread and still have some idea of what the thread is about. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Q: What's the difference between USL and the Titanic? A: The Titanic had a band. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
