Well, Adam, you are wrong. Sorry, but I'm with Ken on this.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Adam Parker
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> 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.
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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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