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Re: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24824
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001, Shaul Karl wrote about "Re: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24824":
> > --
> >
> > When responding, please quote the entire original message.
>
> I guess I didn't follow your advice ;)
>
> Anyway, I got curious - why do you request that? Common wisdom (or
> netiquette, or whatever you want to call it) dictates that a person
> replying cuts down the quoted message to the bare minimum needed to
> understand the context of the reply (just like I did in this message).
> If someone really needs to see the entire original message - it is there,
> arrived to you previously and now can be found again in the mailing list
> archive - and doesn't need to be repeated in its entirety in each reply...
>
I usually remember things by context. Therefore, it helps me a lot if I
have all the context in front of me. I mean it could be that for some
reason I have an association for the manner that the 3rd paragraph was
phrased, even if that paragraph is not directly related to what the
responder directly relates to.
Also, it surely easier to have all the context in front of you then to
go and look in the archive what was written 2 lines before the one that
the responder has elected to quote. The archive might not always get
updated in a timely manner, and when the correspondence is not to a
mailing list || news group there is no archive.
However I agree that these things is a matter of personal taste. One
can argue that it is a waste of time || confusing || boring to have
lots of lines of text in front of you when only some of them are
relevant. It can also be that when a person is involved in a few
threads concurrently || lack the mental abilities to filter only the
relevant details from memory that this request tend to become more
important then to another person.
> Also, consider what such a request would do in long threads, where you
> have replies to replies to replies...
>
No doubt it tend to become a problem with those cases. Still, most of
the threads I involved in are usually short enough for this to become a
problem, at least as far as it is up to me.
--
When responding, please quote the entire original message.
Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
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