From: Dr. Bob Klein (drbob@troop111.org)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 15:43:12 CST
I cannot speak to the foibles of the Digest mode, but I for one much
prefer to see the original message, and most of the time I prefer to see
it in its entirety. When the original post and response are together,
comments made in context are much more clear. In addition, sometimes
postings are made many days after the original, and when traffic is
heavy it can be difficult to recall the original query or comment.
Also, sometimes certain threads become subtly altered in tone or focus
(and sometimes not so subtly!), and posts that were made in response to
the original may be misinterpreted (sometimes badly) if they are thought
to address the current thread versus the original. Finally, and a
complaint I have voiced on a few occasions, I am not enamored of the
fortunately uncommon practice of negative responding to selected
comments that were "cherry-picked" from a larger body of text. IMHO, it
is always "safer" to provide the entire message when giving a negative
response or commentary.
However, FWIW, I do try to remember to snip off the standard footer on
all my responses, and usually also try to remove all previous messages
that are tailed onto a post if I am responding directly to the latest
post only, and the previous posts are not germane (I leave them on if
they are integral to my response). These are things I think we can all
do to reduce the e-clutter.
- Dr. Bob
Jackson Morris wrote:
> ladies and gentlemen - as a recent convert to the digest version of the
> list, i am impressed more so that many of the responses to posting on
> the list include the entire message to which the reply is made. this is
> an optional feature of outlook express and probably outlook and other
> mail clients. i am wondering if list members think it is useful to have
> the originating email in the reply to that originating email. i don't
> think it is useful and feel it merely adds unnecessarily to the length
> of the emails in the digest and for those in real time the length of
> emails posted to the list. the reply generally has enough information
> for me to adequately identify the posting to which it relates. for
> those of like mind, may i suggest that they consider turning off this
> feature under tools > options > send, if they have not already done so.
> hope this is a useful post. jackson morris, contingent leader, trek
> 608G, gulf ridge council, florida
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