[Summit] Please trim pests

[Jeffrey Cavanaugh]

I agree!

In fact, sometimes long threads about topics that don't interest us (this
one for most I'm sure) are an inconvenience.  I'm not interested in
everything either.

I wonder if threads like this get more momentum on Mondays?

:)

BTW, Gmail should show a little ellipsis at the bottom of your message, if
you click on it, you should see all the extra cruft that is poisoning the
digest.


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Robert Mathiesen <rmath13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't use the digest option, and I don't even know how to see all the
> things that I should trim, since they don't show up in the messages my
> gmail gives me.
>
> So, from my point of view, it's a toss-up, whether people should trim or
> not trim.  I'm not a sophisticated computer user at all.  (When I was a
> boy, homes didn't even have TVs.)  If the digest users aren't to be
> inconvenienced, then I will have to be inconvenienced trying to figure out
> with every post how to see what my computer does not automatically show me,
> and where to cut.  If, on the other hand, I am not to be inconvenienced,
> then the digest users drown in a sea of words.  Either way, it's a royal
> pain in the you-know-where.
>
> The third option is for everyone to shut up about the issue.  Let's all
> just to put up with being inconvenienced on this list, every day we read
> it.  Half of us will be inconvenienced in one way every day, the other half
> of us in the other.  This seems the best option to me.
>
> Bob M
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Buecheler <
> cwbuecheler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For the record, despite being the original one who asked the question
>> (and despite thinking that the digest option is, as Jeffrey said, pretty
>> terrible), I'm not one of the people who said they wouldn't trim. I'll do
>> my best to remember. But since gmail and other modern clients hide all the
>> previous discussions, it's easy to forget.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Jeffrey Cavanaugh <jeff at cavanaugh.org>wrote:
>>
>>> So, what level of compliance do you have?  If I go through the trouble
>>> of editing my posts, will it make a difference?  Or is it a futile gesture?
>>> We just heard from 2 users who didn't seem to have any intention of post
>>> trimming, and I'm sure there are many more.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> -Christopher Buecheler - @cwbuecheler
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>>
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