On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:00 AM, Duane wrote:
I think part of the 'problem' is that much of the world, especially the US, has 'unlimited' bandwidth available in many areas, so people feel this common courtesy is no longer necessary.? In a way, I feel lucky to NOT have unlimited internet access, so I tend to think about the results of my actions.
I don't think that what both of us know to be correct netiquette with regard to quotation trimming has been driven by bandwidth for decades now, anywhere.? ?The amount of data in a plain text message or HTML e-mail is negligible by any standard.
It is, or should be, common courtesy to care about your readership being able to read whatever you send easily, and without any extraneous garbage.? That, in and of itself, means that taking a second or two to do a "select all" (even on a mobile device) and erasing everything before replying should be standard practice when context is preserved without it.
It does get much messier, though, as far as trying to do a lengthy point-by-point response using a mobile device, which is one reason I just don't.? I tend to avoid using a mobile device for anything other than reading or moderating, since ease of creation of text requires a keyboard as far as I'm concerned (and that's even with speech-to-text technology - which we've all seen the limitations of).
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Brian
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