[OE-core] truncating quoted text in emails

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 18:08:34 UTC 2016



On 11/16/16 9:01 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com
> <mailto:patrick.ohly at intel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello!
> 
>     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/128861.html
>     <http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-November/128861.html>
> 
>     Not sure what the netiquette is for this list, but at least I would
>     appreciate a bit more aggressive trimming in replies - thanks! ;-}
> 
> 
> 
> We might as well try to agree on an editor to use ;)

I would expect the users to be aware and do the needed. Worst case
your email wont be read or replied to.


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