Re: lilypond-devel email style

Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes:

> On 09.02.25 17:26, Saul Tobin wrote:
>> In my humble (and I'm guessing unpopular) opinion, collapsing reply
>> history included below an email reply is an expected UI feature given
>> that every email system these days needs to handle messages sent from
>> Gmail.
>
> Google is doing a lot of things that don’t make any sense, and I’m
> quite certain that GNU mailing list standards are based on a better
> understanding on how email should be used than most email
> communication via “normal” mailing software is.

This reply style makes sense when communicating with customer support
where every time your communication lands with a different person and
access to other person's archives is problematic.

It is not sensible on a mailing list.  You don't want everything quoted
that people are supposed to be able to access anyway.

> We have mailing list archives in order to preserve reply history, and
> an “expected UI feature” for mailing software would be the ability to
> display an email as part of a thread, or conversation.
>
> There’s no reason for snowballing the amount of text being sent back
> and forth.

Where things get really ugly is when someone quotes the weekly digest at
the bottom of their mail.  And this quote makes it into the next weekly
digest.

-- 
David Kastrup