<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Tim,<br></div>that's because most of us let that job to bots nowadays...<br></div>for example, gmail web interface just show me a minimal context, the rest is materialized as 3 dots : ...<br></div>removing any content from the thread would cost me more clicks, scroll select, backspace...<br></div><div>If you think that it's not good for the planet, and rather old mail reader unfriendly, just complain to google, because they made it good for us and biased our behavior. Beware, I fear you'll have to fight windmills...<br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-16 23:40 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Folks, please - trim your damn posts. Do we really need an entire chapter of ‘Leo Tolstoy” by Warren Peese quoted just to include a “+1” buried in the middle? It pretty much removes any value to your post.<br>
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Strange OpCodes: CPM: Change Programmer's Mind<br>
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