On 8/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Fowler</b> <<a href="mailto:jeremy.f76@gmail.com">jeremy.f76@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You should switch to a gmail account. Gmail groups all messages into a single conversation and auto hides quoted text and make everything easy to read no matter if they top posted or bottom posted.</blockquote></div><br>But that's not the point. You're still sending quotes of quotes of quotes of the same crap for reply after reply after reply, filling up disk drives for no good reason. For the poor schmucks without broadband, you're also taking up their bandwidth to download the redundancy.
<br><br>Fundamentally, it's a question of whether the writer, a single person, owes it to the large group of people to whom he's addressing his words, to take a few moments to do these things, or whether that large group of people should have to do the work.
<br><br>I say it's the writer's job. That means I trim excess quotage, I go over my own words and proof them to be sure I don't commit egregious errors of grammar, spelling, or usage, that will at best force my readers to do extra work to understand me, and at worst cause them to just nuke my posts rather than bothering.
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