[Test-Equipment] Replying to queries: Verbosity is not a virtue, folks

[wolfbob]

Let me counter this fine line of thinking with another idea.

Live with it>>>

It is bad enough that some cant remember what it is they are trying to say 
without reading from some quote directly above their learned and well 
thought out answer, but they force me to scroll down through several lines 
of stuff I already remember to find (and often give-up trying to locate) 
their "me-too" or some other learned comment on the subject.

The purpose is to communicate and to do so with the least use of assets. In 
my case, the primary asset is time. I receive over 500 emails/day, my very 
good spam filter gets about 100 of these and I read the rest. I have less 
than an hour per day to read and respond. This works great if I don't have 
to edit a bunch of stuff, wade through ads and look through endless garbage 
to find your new comments. Put them at the top and I have no problem what 
ever with having a few hundred lines of garbage stuck on the bottom.

Oh, you say it takes up bandwidth. If everyone did this the internet would 
slow way down. BS, say I. One little 5 MP picture is about 10,000 lines of 
email. Oh, you say, my computer will fill up with all that wasted writings. 
Again BS. I have every email I have ever received (over 20 years) stored 
somewhere in about 5 GB. Chicken feed in today's memory world.

If you get three emails/day and want something to do, then indeed edit the 
thread. It does reduce the traffic and memory requirements, but what else 
are you going to do with all that speed, fiber optics, Terabyte drives and 
whatever you must have for you computer. What you cannot buy is your time.

Get a life.

WBob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Wade" <sacramento.cyclist at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Electronic Test Equipment" 
<test-equipment at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Test-Equipment] Replying to queries: Verbosity is not a 
virtue,folks


> All above is excellent advice, especially changing the topic when
> appropriate.  That becomes really useful for those who view their mail
> in thread form, as opposed to just ordered by date.
>
> I thought I'd give the answer to the specific question though, "How do
> I turn off 'auto-quote'?"
>
> That function is in your particular mail program.  There should be a
> setting to tell it to quote the mail your replying, or not, as well as
> where to put your reply...either at the end or beginning of the quote
> (if you quote, of course).
>
> Sorry folks, but the bottom line is you need to think about it.
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Gollum <gelabel at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>      snip
>
>> It is so easy to just press the "Reply" button..... the brain is not
>> disturbed in any way...... :-)
>>
>> Alberto
>> ______________________________________________________________
>
> -- 
> Dennis L. Wade
> KG6ZI
> Carmichael, CA
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