freebsd stable - Jan 2015 - trimming... Re: I need some swap partion help on new 10.1 install

On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 09:27 +1100, grenville armitage
wrote:
> 
> On 01/08/2015 22:53, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
> 	[..]
> > Arrrgh, doesn't anyone on this list trim their emails anymore?
> > It's like a bloody AOL chainletter around here:-(
> 
> +1... oh, so many +1s
> 
> But times, they are a changing....
> 
> cheers,
> gja
Yeah, it's horrible.  Really the only worse thing that could happen is
that someone could strip away all the context and change the thread into
a metadiscussion that just deteriorates into a bunch of AOL-like "me
too" replies.

-- Ian

On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:38:38 -0700 Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote
> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 09:27 +1100, grenville armitage wrote:
> > 
> > On 01/08/2015 22:53, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
> >     [..]
> > > Arrrgh, doesn't anyone on this list trim their emails
anymore?
> > > It's like a bloody AOL chainletter around here:-(
> > 
> > +1... oh, so many +1s
> > 
> > But times, they are a changing....
> > 
> > cheers,
> > gja
> 
> Yeah, it's horrible.  Really the only worse thing that could happen is
> that someone could strip away all the context and change the thread into
> a metadiscussion that just deteriorates into a bunch of AOL-like "me
> too" replies.
> 
> -- Ian
Woot! My exact thoughts. I'm only sorry you beat me to it. :)

--Chris
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On 01/09/2015 09:38, Ian Lepore wrote:
	[..]
> Yeah, it's horrible.  Really the only worse thing that could happen is
> that someone could strip away all the context
Fair enough. You think eliding context is a bad thing. I think there's
a balance to be had -- every email does not need to be a self-contained
archive of a thread's history. This particular thread seemed to have
reached an educational conclusion, so some meta-discussion is hardly
a capital offence.
>  and change the thread into
> a metadiscussion that just deteriorates into a bunch of AOL-like "me
> too" replies.
That would indeed be unfortunate.

cheers,
gja