Hey, some of you, cut it out!--God damn it, please

[Paul York]

John M. Krafft wrote:
> 
> Set your e-mail programs _not_ to quote the messages you reply to, please.
> It's getting boring, and it's driving me up the wall.  We don't need
> to read the whole post again, much less the nested series of exchanges
> we've just finished reading anyway.  Even attaching the message you're
> replying to to the end of your reply is silly.  Especially in the digest,
> the real messages get pretty hard to find sometimes.  Have some mercy,
> please, and mind the entropy.
> 
> And please begin by resisting any smartassed impulse to quote this message in
> reply.
> 
> jmk
> Sorry, but you did sort of walk into that one :-).  Actually, for the 
three or four weeks that I've been here, *most* of the P-listers seem to 
be pretty good about snipping out the irrelevant bits of post they are 
replying to.  Too, sometimes when a post is being replied to a day or 
two later, it doesn't bother me to see most of that post quoted in 
whole, especially as I tend to delete everything I'm not planning on 
responding to anytime soon.  Is it getting boring?  It probably depends 
on who you are and what your interest is in any particular thread.  But, 
then, people come with built-in filters that allow them to choose to 
skip over text which doesn't interest them without actually bothering to 
read it in its entirety, a feature I particularly find useful now that 
I'm usually having to deal with over 100 posts a day.
	Take care and don't mind the entropy,
		Paul