Oy Veh

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>Blue lines plus green lines plus wrote wrote wrote:

I fully agree that these replies to replies to replies are an eyesore, and 
they certainly take up a lot of space, but they allow us to grasp 
immediately what exactly the reply is replying to. Even if you have a nice 
e-mail program which lines up the posts in neat threads, the subject lines 
are sometimes changed and the origins of a discussion hopelessly lost.
What goes on on the p-list is a conversation, and it doesn't hurt to have 
this conversation before you when you type out your own reply or read other 
replies. It probably takes less time to scroll down to the new content of a 
message than it would take to search back through other messages, sometimes 
days old, to find out what exactly a given reply is all about.
The current practice of including earlier posts in replies is far from 
ideal, and I often feel the need to exclaim "Oy Veh" (or other, less 
printable, Danish equivalents) as well, but frankly, the alternative is 
worse.

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