a plea: trim quoted text & don't top-post

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I just got a 300 line message with 6 lines of added content in one
> lump.  Please consider the reader and be selective in your quoting.

Ha, that was probably me with all the apt errors, right? Sorry, with
GMail I don't see all that because quoted text is hidden by default.

> I encourage you to not top post on this list.  I guess that is covered
> by the previous point since top isn't selective.

I do not top post unless the thread is already dominated by
top-posters. At that point it's hopeless to try anyway.

> People on this list should already have recently seen what you are
> quoting.  Interleaved selective quoting often helps pinpoint what you are
> referring to, but this is seldom the case for wholesale quoting.


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