[sage-devel] Re: netiquette: quoting emails

2008-08-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 19 Aug, 16:41, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hence, deleting unneeded portions helps the reader. > > Strong +1.  This list is particularly bad for quoting an entire   > message, 5 levels deep, only to add "I agree" at the very end. > > Nick Make that another. It is crazy some

[sage-devel] Re: netiquette: quoting emails

2008-08-19 Thread David Philp
On 20/08/2008, at 1:41 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > >> Hence, deleting unneeded portions helps the reader. > > Strong +1. This list is particularly bad for quoting an entire > message, 5 levels deep, only to add "I agree" at the very end. I don't feel strongly about it. But I am much more lik

[sage-devel] Re: netiquette: quoting emails

2008-08-19 Thread Ondrej Certik
Dear Simon, On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And now imagine an answer to an answer to an answer. It would be quite > time consuming to find out which tiny part of a long text with nested > comments is relevant for the answer. > > Hence, deleting unneeded

[sage-devel] Re: netiquette: quoting emails

2008-08-19 Thread Nick Alexander
> Hence, deleting unneeded portions helps the reader. Strong +1. This list is particularly bad for quoting an entire message, 5 levels deep, only to add "I agree" at the very end. Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googl

[sage-devel] Re: netiquette: quoting emails

2008-08-19 Thread Simon King
Dear Ondrej, On Aug 19, 12:08 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed by accident in some other thread that some people don't like > when I quote the whole emails. So I wanted to ask > if it really causes such big problems. Modern mail readers like gmail > handle this just fine