Date:         Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:36:43 -0700
Reply-To:     Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trim replies when referancing post
Comments: To: Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com>
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dear all
gmail works like a chain referenced concordance and links all conversations
of the thread into one line
unless you change the subject line ...

"let us not believe we have communicated simply because we have exchanged
words"

the motto of <http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/tautologous> Tautologous
Pleonasm & Associates

yours

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:

> At 05:48 PM 4/2/2008, Tom Buese wrote...
>
> > Yep, it makes it a PITA to reply, & that list is a fraction of what it
> > used to be.
> >
>
> ...and this one line, middle-posted (!) comment was then followed by a
> couple of pages of untrimmed quoted content.
>
> I can see why you don't post on the T2 list. You can't. I feel very
> sorry for anyone who receives the Vanagon list in digest form, or over
> a slow link.
>



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Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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