Evolution

[Thiers Botelho]

On 5/27/06, Bernard Peek <bap at shrdlu.com> wrote:
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> Possibly. Although even if you top-post it would still be preferable if you
> trimmed extraneous material from your messages, such as the following:
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You're right about trimming footers / disclaimers / signatures /
quotes of quotes of quotes etc.

Mind you, during the 3 or 4 years I was a slave to corporate Lotus
Notes - which is one of the worst pieces of email software I ever came
across - I was very zealous about removing this kind of cruft from my
emails, and wondered why most other people didn't ever exercise this
kind of care.

But . . . during the last week or so, after becoming free from the
obligation of using such a crappy software piece - and becoming
acquainted with the benesses of Gmail, I must confess I fell prey to
the dark side. It happens that Gmail's Web interface smartly
auto-hides all previous quotes (in fact it does the pseudo-cleaning
you wished that the mailing list would do), so that all the previous
layers of accumulated cruft become non-existent to me for practical
purposes.

However I don't think it should be too difficult to trim cruft when
composing emails. I'll have a try at that on my next ones, maybe I'll
regenerate myself.   :)

Cheers

Thiers


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> I had hoped that mailing list software would have fixed this. It should be
> relatively simple for mailing list soiftware to recognise its own footer
> material and not add yet another copy each time the messages are quoted.