Subject: [pcp] Mailing list etiquette

From: Stuart Cheshire <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:12:59 -0700

I want to reiterate what Alain Durand recently said. We all have mail  
clients that store the email messages we've received. We can all look  
back to see previous messages.

Quote a line or two of context if necessary to indicate what you're  
talking about, but there's wholesale quoting of the entire  
conversation to date in every message makes for a very poor signal-to- 
noise ratio.

A recent message to the list (not picking on anyone in particular)  
had TWO lines of new text hidden in the middle of 324 quoted lines of  
discussion that I'd waded through (several times) already.

That's a signal-to-noise ratio of 1:162, or 0.62%.

Stuart Cheshire <[email-masked]>
* Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Inc.
* www.stuartcheshire.org