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

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Paul York wrote:
> 
> 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
scrollbar. use the scrollbar. just because it's there doesn't mean you
have to read it, but it's nice to have the referent available. (i'm
responding to john here).
ray