From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailhub-3.iastate.edu ([129.186.140.13]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1E0Nfr-0000S7-00 for ; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:09:03 -0400 Received: from mailout-2.iastate.edu (mailout-2.iastate.edu [129.186.140.2]) by mailhub-3.iastate.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j73I92sY023765 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:09:02 -0500 Received: from gene3.ait.iastate.edu(129.186.144.105) by mailout-2.iastate.edu via csmap id 83172c7c_044b_11da_824c_003048290bef_18652; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:22:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from gene3.ait.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by gene3.ait.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident collins using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:08:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:32:21 -0400. Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:08:58 -0500 From: "Gene Collins" Subject: Re: Quoting X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:09:03 -0000 Hi Karen and all. Regardless of what quoting style you use, judicious quoting is always in order. Some folks have a habit of hitting the reply button, typing in their response, and not removing the unnecessary quoted material at the bottom. This wastes network bandwidth, and disk space on the mail server the message is going to. For example. Let's say I'm responding to a ten k message, and all I want to do is send a "please send me a copy also." message. If I trim the quoted material, and only reference the material I want a copy of instead of the whole message, My out going message could be only one k or less, instead of the original ten k. My out going mail server didn't have as much to process, and the list server it finally arrived at, which may have several thousand members on a list, had lots less to do. Let's say the list has a round one thousand members for example. Instead of the ten million plus characters that would have had to be processed for the ten k message, the server only has to process a million characters for the one thousand one k messages. The fact that people have been indiscriminately quoting a whole thread with their message at the top is why Kirk has had to put a five k message size on the Speakup list. Quoting can be useful when done well. When done indiscriminately and without thought, it's a waste of time and resources. Gene >Just so. I always put my comments at the top for that reason. Then >anyone who need not read the source message does not have to do this. >Karen