• Quoting vs. comment linking

    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to mark lewis on Thu Nov 8 23:35:16 2018
    i see that you also cut out your quoted response...

    I've always tried to trim the quoted text down to a bare minimum.

    You may not be aware of it, but most people find it hard to read ugly quoted
    text with just one single line added to it.

    This is why we have comment linking in 21st century FTN software, for those that are interested enough to actually follow the discussion backwards.



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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Björn Felten on Fri Nov 9 11:07:48 2018
    On 2018 Nov 08 23:35:16, you wrote to me:

    i see that you also cut out your quoted response...

    I've always tried to trim the quoted text down to a bare minimum.

    right... no problem with that but don't cut out part in the middle that is relevant...

    You may not be aware of it, but most people find it hard to read ugly quoted text with just one single line added to it.

    i am quite aware of it...

    This is why we have comment linking in 21st century FTN software, for those that are interested enough to actually follow the discussion backwards.

    that helps but not all software in use today has that capability... YYMV...

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