On 9/5/2017 12:01 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-09-05 3:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> I can't bear to use Thunderbird these days - mostly for that reason.
>> I like to read posts in the preview window but that requires constant
>> scrolling. It would make my life so much easier if people trimed
>> their posts or top posted.
>
> I agree about the trimming, but I don't blame Thunderbird for that. I
> use Thunderbird and I make an effort to trim the post, leaving just
> enough quoted text to give the reply some context. There is no reason to
> include 100 lines or more of text going back through 10 previous posts.
> It is even more annoying when they include all that crab and then have
> only a one line comment at the end. People are in the bozo bin for doing
> that too often.
>
>

If you can get the poster here to trim all their posts down to the
message they're responding too, I'd go along with that. OTOH, it's
fairly obvious that people have trouble trimming posts because there's a
lot of misattributing of posts. So that may not work out either. Oh well.