[Starlingx-discuss] Mailing list notes

[Chris Friesen]

Arguably trimming too much information is due to the people in question 
not showing good judgement about what bits to remove, rather than a 
problem with the technique in the first place.

I personally would rather see something like *this* message where the 
not-directly-relevant bits have been dropped so that it's easier to see 
the flow of the discussion. (Although I'd argue that writing below the 
quoted bits makes it easier to catch up on a thread that you haven't 
been following--but it's also less convenient for people on mobile 
devices that have to scan through a long message.)

While we're on the topic of emails, Bart/Don it looks like your email 
clients are not indenting or otherwise indicating which sections are 
quoted.  I suspect this is default Outlook behaviour (it can be 
changed), but it does make it a lot more difficult to break up a message 
and reply to it in sections without resorting to things like prefixing 
with initials or using different colours for different people.  On the 
other hand, multiple levels of indentation become problematic on mobile 
devices with limited screen size.  The choice of tool influences which 
writing style is easiest to use and most clear to the recipient.

Chris

On 1/17/2019 12:35 PM, Penney, Don wrote:
> I'd agree with Bart. There have been many cases (not necessarily on this discussion list) where folks reply and truncate threads and remove all history and context from it, leaving an unintelligible message that can only make sense if you then go and read a dozen other truncated messages, in the correct order. I don't see how this leads to a "better record"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wensley, Barton [mailto:Barton.Wensley at windriver.com]
>
> Personally, I find it difficult to track conversations where the message has been "trimmed" (I am tempted to use other more descriptive words but I won't). I'd prefer to see the whole context of the conversation without having to track back through several messages in the history.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Troyer [mailto:dtroyer at gmail.com]
>
> The top reasons most messages get caught in moderation are:
>
> 1) message too big - we have a limit of 60K on message size.  I am
> aware that the majority of subscribers use a mail client that
> encourages top-posting and that leads to not trimming messages, in
> this environment that makes conversations over multiple messages hard
> to follow.  Trimming unnecessary quoting in messages makes for a
> better record of conversations, and will ensure that you are not
> delayed by the size limit.