From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F2A71A0B for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 Nov 2016 14:17:37 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,650,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="32191585" Received: from llgoh-mobl.gar.corp.intel.com (HELO peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.255.159.102]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 Nov 2016 14:17:35 -0800 From: Paul Eggleton To: Patrick Ohly Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:17:28 +1300 Message-ID: <2012703.OcmjIoC66F@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.7.10-100.fc23.x86_64; KDE/4.14.20; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1479310588.18151.22.camel@intel.com> References: <1479310588.18151.22.camel@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: truncating quoted text in emails X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:17:37 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:36:28 Patrick Ohly wrote: > While trying to follow patch reviews on this list I noticed that > (subjectively?) quite a few replies completely quote the original email > and then just add a few lines. That looks fine in GMail where the quoted > text is folded, but not so much in mail readers where quoted text is > unfolded (Evolution). > > A random example: > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-November/1288 > 61.html > > Not sure what the netiquette is for this list, but at least I would > appreciate a bit more aggressive trimming in replies - thanks! ;-} I completely agree. I really prefer not to have to wade through the entire quoted text of a long patch email only to read something like "ACK" at the end. (By all means quote specific parts that you want to respond to in detail.) Still, better to have some reply than no reply, I suppose. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre