[Mageia-discuss] Help about gmane and broken threads

Tue Sep 28 04:33:16 CEST 2010

Hi André,
+
+On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Andre Machado <afmachado at dcemail.com> wrote:
+> Hi,
+
+> For the good of all, I started to use Gmane,
+
+Thank you so so so much. This is the first post that is not breaking a thread.
+
+ WIN!
+
+> but when I will reply a post, it
+> often says that is much quoted text.
+
+Then, you are quoting too much text compared of the amount of new text
+you are ading to the conversation.
+
+> Is this normal?
+
+It is normal when you quote a very long message and you add only very little.
+
+>  What are the maximum allowed?
+
+I don't know. But my guess is that quoting a 200 lines email just to
+ad a one line answer is not good.
+
+Not good for the server, and not good for everybody reading the messages.
+
+Think about it.
+
+You'll have to download a huge message over cellular network (most
+read emails on smartphones), which takes time, battery and goes
+against the data download limit.
+
+And then, you have to scroll many many many lines just for a single line.
+
+Not great.
+
+This is why there are all this rules in place.
+
+> Can I erase all > signs except the first one?
+
+That will be awful. You will just "cheating".
+
+Thin why are there rules, to help everybody, to make it easier to read
+more than 1000 messages in one week.
+
+Just trim (= remove) what is not needed.
+
+
+> Sorry for anything,
+
+Don't worry. We all learn all the time, nobody is born knowing it all.
+
+> André
+
+
+
+Salut,
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