Doing something about signal:noise complaints

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:16:45AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> Hello Colin,
> 
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 13:40 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > [Please preserve quoting attributions in your replies; it makes things
> > awfully confusing when you remove them. I've restored them here.]
> 
> How much should be preserved? Knowing that some quotes can get out of
> hand, I tend to crop, but tend to include the quote that the test refers
> to. 

Note that I said "quoting attributions", not "quotes".

Of course you should trim quotes appropriately. However, any time you
quote some text, you should leave an indication of who wrote it. (Your
mail client seems to have inserted one here, so I assume it does so in
general.) If you have multiple levels of quoting, preserve the
attributions left by other people.

> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:56:03AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> > > ...
> > > "Somehow confident"? your confident, but you don't know why?
> > 
> > Loïc was indicating that the space filled with "[somehow confident]" is
> > (in the web survey) a drop-down from which you can select several
> > different options indicating different degrees of confidence.
> 
> I took the survey, I knew what the context was. But somehow isn't right
> in this context and I wanted to say so.

OK.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]