[rescue] Insane drives

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, July 11, 2001 at 03:07:08 (-0400), Loomis, Rip wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Insane drives
>
> If an e-mail is sent as a private, non-
> archived mail to a small set of well-known
> folks, then context is not necessarily
> important.

Note that Joshua said explicitly that in a case where the quoting should
follow a message the reply would be written in such a way that conext
would be implicit in the reply.  In that case no quoting should ever be
done, at least not in a public forum like this.

>  Even in that situation, though,
> it may be productive to include some
> excerpt from the original discussion so
> that folks who come back from vacation and
> rejoin the discussion can keep the context
> straight.

That's what archives are for..... 

0.5 :-)

In an ideal world quoting for context would never ever be necessary.
The practice evolved on Usenet and other BBS & BBS-like systems because
postings would usually expire and thus context in a thread was often
very hard, if not impossible, for a reader to retrieve after the fact.

In general full quoting is always frowned upon upon in a public shared
forum.  (Full quoting is still necessary in some forms of business and
personal communications, just as one would attach copies of previous
memos in some circumstances with paper based communications.)

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