Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-20 Thread James C. McPherson
On 19/06/10 07:58 AM, Marion Hakanson wrote: doug.lin...@merchantlink.com said: Apparently, before Outlook there WERE no meetings, because it's clearly impossible to schedule one without it. Don't tell my boss, but I use Outlook for the scheduling, and fetchmail plus procmail to download email

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Marion Hakanson
doug.lin...@merchantlink.com said: > Apparently, before Outlook there WERE no meetings, because it's clearly > impossible to schedule one without it. Don't tell my boss, but I use Outlook for the scheduling, and fetchmail plus procmail to download email out of Exchange and into my favorite email

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Linder, Doug
> People still use Outhouse? Really?! Next you'll be suggesting that > some people still put up with Internet Exploder... ;-) Those of us who are literally forced to use it aren't too happy. Nor am I happy with the giant stupid signature that gets tacked on that you all have to trim when you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Linder, Doug wrote: >> Another thing that Gmail does that I find infuriating, is that it >> mucks with the formatting. For some reason it, and to be fair, Outlook >> as well, seem to think that they know how a message needs to be >> formatted better than I do. > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Geoff Nordli
>-Original Message- >From: Linder, Doug >Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:53 PM > >Try doing inline quoting/response with Outlook, where you quote one section, >reply, quote again, etc. It's impossible. You can't split up the quoted section to >add new text - no way, no how. Very infuriati

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-18 Thread Linder, Doug
> Another thing that Gmail does that I find infuriating, is that it > mucks with the formatting. For some reason it, and to be fair, Outlook > as well, seem to think that they know how a message needs to be > formatted better than I do. Try doing inline quoting/response with Outlook, where you quo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > This list is the worst one that I am on for that kind of behavior. Makes > me wonder how those folks can manage complex storage systems when they > cannot even organize their thoughts efficiently. As mentioned earlier, gmail may be behind a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-11 Thread Frank Cusack
On 6/10/10 11:07 PM -0700 Dave Koelmeyer wrote: I trimmed, and then got complained at by a mailing list user that the context of what I was replying to was missing. Can't win :P There's a big difference between trim and remove. The worst is when people quote 3-4 paragraphs, respond inline to O

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 11, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: I trimmed, and then got complained at by a mailing list user that the context of what I was replying to was missing. Can't win :P If at a minimum one trims the disclaimers, footers and signatures, that's better then nothing. On long th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-11 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: >> I think that you may notice that most of the perpetrators are from Gmail. >>  It seems that Gmail is very good at hiding existing text in its user >> interface so people think noth

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-10 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I think that you may notice that most of the perpetrators are from Gmail. >  It seems that Gmail is very good at hiding existing text in its user > interface so people think nothing of including most/all of the email they > are replying to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-10 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
I trimmed, and then got complained at by a mailing list user that the context of what I was replying to was missing. Can't win :P -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: The problem is all the top-posts and similar bottom-posts where everything in the thread is kept. This is not good netiquette, even in 2010. I think that you may notice that most of the perpetrators are from Gmail. It seems that Gmail is ver

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > It's getting downright ridiculous. The digest people will kiss you. > > But those reading via individual message email quite possibly will > not. Quoting at least what you're actually responding to is crucial to > making sense out here. The problem is all the top-posts and similar bottom-post

Re: [zfs-discuss] Please trim posts

2010-06-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Thu, June 10, 2010 12:26, patto...@yahoo.com wrote: > It's getting downright ridiculous. The digest people will kiss you. But those reading via individual message email quite possibly will not. Quoting at least what you're actually responding to is crucial to making sense out here. -- David