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[David Andrew - Sun MDE]

Paul,

I am not advocating keeping entire message history, unless absolutlely 
needed for context. And I specifically addressed interleaving, with an 
added 1-liner as an intro.  I can't see how that would add more than a 
few bytes to notes.

On the other hand, your message from gnhlug-discuss looks like this (and 
this is with "abbreviated headers"), with 27 lines in the header and 13 
lines in your trailer).  This is the only alias with such a formidable 
header.

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>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:53:31 -0500
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>In a message dated: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:06:35 EST
>David Andrew - Sun MDE said:
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>
>>If everyone top-posted, the thread would be intact, and it would save 
a 
>>lot of wasted time searching through the message to get the part added 
>>with the new e-mail.
>
>It would also make every e-mail incredibly huge, and people on 
>dial-up connections shouldn't have to wait forever to download huge 
>e-mails like that.  It also wastes a huge amount of bandwidth, and 
>space in the archives.
>
>The whole point of interleaved comments is to be able to strip out 
>all that unnecessary to the point trying to be made, while leaving 
>enough context for those who haven't followed the entire thread to be 
>able to jump in at any point and understand what's going on.
>
>>If someone wants to see the history, it's there, but not in the way of 
easy 
>>and quick processing of messages in a thread.
>
>If you use a threaded mail client, you can quickly jump to the 
>beginning of the thread and review what was said earlier.
>
>>I'd also like to see the elimination of the 12 to 16 extraneous lines 
in 
>>the messages received from this alias, so I could see the 1 or 2 line 
>>message without having to page down.
>
>12 to 16 lines?  What lines are those?  I see 4 at the bottom of 
>messages, and 6 in the headers.  What 12-16 are you referring to?
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>Seeya,
>Paul
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