Likewise. We've used Gmail for some time here and I have to say that the
misses are very infrequent. I don't see the problem, frankly.
That legal warning is a policy requirement that is placed upon me as an
employee of a publicly listed company. You could always buy shares in us
and argue the case against it. Until then it stays.
And this is a design forum, not a science forum.
~Adam
On 10 February 2012 21:31, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, Adam, you are wrong. Sorry, but I'm with Ken on this.
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Adam Parker
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > It also seems unnecessary to continuoually ask list members to adjust
> their
> > workflow, when a modern email client can autohide tails.
>
> Gmail tries to autohide what it calls "quoted" parts of a message, but
> it often fails, both by misses and false hides. it very often fails to
> hide what it should hide and often hides relevant stuff that the
> reader needs to see.
> --
> It is difficult to make an email system that hides redundancies. A
> programmer friend and I started a company with that goal in mind, and
> after 6 months, we gave up. Too many different mail clients, too
> many different ways of signifying quoted material.
>
> And we are stuck on this mailing list that uses incredibly antique
> technology -- from the 1970s or so, that doesn't allow html and
> insists on inserting line returns in the middle of lines.
>
> So each of us must do our share of the work to keep the material
> flowing. You could help by not only trimming, but by deleting that
> stupid legal warning. Your mail has a completely stupid legal warning
> being sent to an open email conversation. That warning completely
> violates the ethics of open scientific debate. Why don't you stop
> that?
>
> Don
>
> For your information, my domain's email, jnd.org, is handled by
> Google. I use Google Apps, which is the commercial version of gmail.
> So I am reading and sending this with Gmail.
>
--
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