Re: [ga] ICANN | Advisory | 23 August 2001

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

Sometimes it is important to have more quoted text due to context 
surrounding the issue.   However, I've noticed that some messages 
are as much as 20k, which is too much.  

Personally, I prefer to have enough of the context quoted in the 
message to allow a complete understanding, but there is no need 
to quote an entire thread when it gets to three or four hundred lines.

OTOH, a 15k or 20k file does not take long to download even on a 
dialup account.  I still use dialup when DSL is acting flakey and 
have had no problems with 20k files.  I think those who would be 
most bothered are in areas where they are charged by data traffic 
as opposed to time.  It is for those people I think we must observe 
mail list eitquette more than thoes who just don't care for longer 
messages.  Anything over 10k is a bit much.

My 2 cents once more.
Leah

On 25 Aug 2001, at 12:15, Derek Conant wrote:

> They may be "> > worthless quotes" to you, however, I believe that it
> is good practice to have an accurate record regarding the text one is
> responding to.  This is why email messages I am responding to and its
> text are quoted in my email comments.
> 
> It is also difficult to understand email comments from others if the
> email message and text being addressed is not quoted. 
> 
> Give us a break.  Are you trying to confuse people here, or what?  If
> you don't like quoted text, then simply ignore the quoted text.  
> 
> Derek Conant
> DNSGA President and Chairman
> 
> Telephone:  (202) 801-0158
> Facsimile:  (202) 234-0685
> E-mail:  dconant@dnsga.org
> 
> Kent Crispin wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:31:56PM -0400, Derek Conant wrote:
> > > Now respectfully, you should know better than to waste your time
> > > supporting a position that will never be actualized.
> > 
> > Derek, I wonder if you would mind editing out the useless volumes of
> > quoted text from your email messages.  There is absolutely no reason
> > to subject us to receiving the same stuff 3 or 4 times over...
> > 
> > [300 lines of worthless quotes removed]
> > 
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