[Tutor] A Plea for Sensible Quoting

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:42:15 pm Michael Powe wrote:

> Just a plea to remember to take the time to `C-k' or `dd' or whatever
> is required to get that extraneous material out of the mail.  A
> little formatting goes a long way.

Seconded, thirded, fourthed and fifthed.

For those using a GUI email reader, select the unnecessary text with 
your mouse or keyboard, and press the backspace or delete key. See, not 
hard, was it?

I find myself deleting more and more emails unread. After paging down 
through two or three pages of quoting, without seeing a single new 
word, I just give up and press delete.

There is absolutely no reason to include the entire history of the 
discussion every single time you post. Take a little bit of care in 
your responses please -- you're learning to be a programmer, you're 
supposed to be smarter and more capable than the average Myspacer or 
Facebooker.


Thank you.



-- 
Steven D'Aprano