Re: [Gusdev-gusdev] mailing list protocol?

[Jonathan C. <cra...@pc...>]

Steve Fischer wrote:
> I think i am ok with interspersed responses... as long as they leave the 
> whole original there.  its the cutting that is the real problem.  i just 
> don't want to have to dig around among old mails to find the rest of the 
> thread.

You shouldn't have to do any digging so long as your e-mail client lets you
read your e-mail in threaded mode.  The following page covers some of the
reasons why always including the whole message can be a bad idea (section
2.1):

<http://learn.to/quote/>

I think they're mostly applicable to e-mail as well as Usenet postings,
particularly since the advent of threaded e-mail clients.

Jonathan