On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> I suggest that people posting replies to posts on this email list try
> to *minimize* quoting of the previous post(s).
I've always had some text in my class about proper emailing, including
this. But it's a lost fight. After N years with students just ignoring
it (not to spite, just because they never remember it) I now see blank
stares when I talk about it. Gmail managed to entrench top-posting to
the point that they don't even know what I'm talking about. In an ideal
world people would never quote thing unless it's really short, and your
email client would have a little button that shows you the previous
context when you need to instead of including it with every new email --
and I'm guessing that many people actually think that this is what
happens.
(All of that is related to the twitching you undoubtedly do whenever you
get a bugreport with a jpg holding a screenshot just to show you a
40-character error message. A sign that you're a dinosaur. (I'm
guessing that it won't take long for these emails to switch to a video
capture of the error happening.))
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