Re: Edit all replies please

[Dave Gomberg <gomberg@wcf.com>]

I use different strategies for different situations.

When negotiating some deal with someone I always quote the whole exchange 
so you never have to look somewhere else to determine the context.

When posting to a list, I try to post something that anyone interested will 
want to read ALL OF.   So there is no chaff, only wheat (I hope).



At 07:03 PM 5/21/02 -0700, you wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Frank O'Carroll wrote:
>
> > We are not writing graffitti on the bathroom walls here.  Keeping a 
> complete
> > train-of-consciousness record of a thread and repeating it over and over
> > with every email is not good editing practice.
>
> Here here!  Speaking from a historical perspective as the Krib archivist,
> I've noticed the general "slacker" trend in e-mails (not just here, but on
> many lists) to just leave everything in the original message below the
> reply.  In the archive, it looks incredibly silly.  Used to be that I'd
> archive entire threads of interesting exchange for the Krib... now I ask
> myself "do I want to hand-edit all that chaff out just for the 2 lines of
> information?"  Nope, not worth it.
>
> Of course we've got both kinds here now... there's also a class of replies
> that don't quote ANY of the original material, so you have NO idea what
> they're saying.  Ah well.
>
>   - Erik
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
>
>
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