In <[🔎] 4C774786.8010603@familyross.net>, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 8/25/2010 11:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> I don't know anyone who gets irritated by seeing the usenet quoting >> style. > >Joel Spolsky does. > >http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html In all fairness, he was talking about a different medium and had an issue (in that medium) with *any* form of quoting. Quoting is important in newsgroups and e-mail because a reply might appear before the post to which it is replying, and the context is important since it is important the message stand alone. (It is increasingly rare, but I've had replies arrive before their parent at least once over the last month.) In most web forums, such problems don't exist, so quoting becomes redundant noise. Especially since you are likely "forced" to read (or at least skim) a few messages prior to the ones you haven't read yet. When displaying more than one message at once, the UI should probably elide any quoted text that is already on the screen (at least). GMail does a bit more than this, but the idea is sound. I vastly prefer mailing list to web forums, and disagree with some of his other points, but this is quickly getting OT. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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