<VV> vv - quoting entire posts - bad (no corvair)

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi Roger,

There's some merit in what you say - however the guideline is there  
also for digest readers who don't want to dig through lots of quotes  
for a one line answer.  Also, the guideline is just that, a guide.   
If the thread is complicated, it's a good idea to leave big parts of  
it intact.  Certainly quoting enough of the post to make your answer  
clear is a good idea.  However, we don't need (and I don't think you  
are suggesting) five copies of the VV trailer.  That just wastes  
space and you have to hunt past it to find the next message in a digest.

BTW, if you need to pick up a thread in its entirety, don't forget  
the archives.  One of the options there is messages by thread:

http://www.vv.corvair.org/pipermail/virtualvairs/2007-May/thread.html

--Bryan

On May 30, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Roger Gault wrote:

> Just to give a voice to the other side, I actually prefer the whole  
> message
> be left intact.  In fact, I prefer the whole thread.  Otherwise I  
> often have
> no clue (perhaps we need a period here) as to what is being  
> discussed and
> have to go back through my deleted item folder (which currently  
> contains
> 63,979 messages to figure out what's been said.