• Walter Bright (12/12) Jun 30 2018 When replying to message in the forum, please don't quote the entire mes...
• Jonathan M Davis (7/10) Jun 30 2018 Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for those usi...
• Walter Bright (2/6) Jun 30 2018 What I said :-)
• Temtaime (2/10) Jun 30 2018 Just drop away this annoying quoting by default.
• Jonathan M Davis (18/32) Jun 30 2018 Please, no.
• Vladimir Panteleev (4/7) Jul 02 2018 That's right. It also warns you about not quoting at all, along

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

When replying to message in the forum, please don't quote the entire message
and 
then add a little bit to the end. News readers are quite capable of displaying 
the context to the reader. Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then 
only enough to cue the reader to just what you are responding to.

Some of these threads get quite long, and constantly quoting and thereby 
reposting it all is completely unnecessary and annoying.

Most annoying is when someone quotes a hundred lines, and just adds:

     I agree

or:

     +1

at the end. It's fine to post "I agree", just don't quote the rest of it. The 
newsreader is perfectly capable of displaying what you're replying to.

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Saturday, June 30, 2018 14:45:15 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
 It's fine to post "I agree", just don't quote the rest of it.
 The newsreader is perfectly capable of displaying what you're replying
 to.

Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for those using
the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated. Unfortunately, it's not
uncommon for e-mail clients to misorder posts when threading them, and if a
post doesn't quote anything, it can become very difficult to figure out what
on earth the post is replying to.

- Jonathan M Davis

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/30/2018 3:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only enough to cue
 the reader to just what you are responding to.

 Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for those using
 the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated.

What I said :-)

Temtaime <temtaime gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 22:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 6/30/2018 3:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only


 enough to cue
 the reader to just what you are responding to.

 Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for 
 those using
 the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated.

 What I said :-)

Just drop away this annoying quoting by default.

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Sunday, July 01, 2018 03:19:32 Temtaime via Digitalmars-d wrote:
 On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 22:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
 On 6/30/2018 3:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 Just quote the bit you are responding to, and then only


 enough to cue

 the reader to just what you are responding to.

 Quoting at least _part_ of the message is highly desirable for
 those using
 the mailing list, even it's very abbreviated.

 What I said :-)

 Just drop away this annoying quoting by default.

Please, no.

1. Most clients are going to quote the entire text of the message that's
being replied to, so the only people affected by any attempt to not have the
quotes would be those using the web interface.

2. If it didn't quote the original post, it would be really annoying to then
actually quote the relevant pieces that should be quoted.

3. If it didn't automatically quote the original post, then a number of
people would quickly start not quoting at all, which would cause
communication problems any time that a client doesn't thread the messages
properly (which definitely happens with some e-mail clients, and I'm pretty
sure that it happens with the web interface at least sometimes, but I don't
use it often enough to remember for sure). It also would create problems for
anyone who doesn't use a threaded view (be that in a newsgroup client, an
e-mail client, or the web interface).

4. As I recall, the web interface already warns you if you leave enough of
the quote in that it thinks that you're probably overquoting.

- Jonathan M Davis

Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 1 July 2018 at 03:49:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
 4. As I recall, the web interface already warns you if you 
 leave enough of the quote in that it thinks that you're 
 probably overquoting.

That's right. It also warns you about not quoting at all, along 
with 6 other rules:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/web/lint.d