Hi Everybody,

I'm not the list admin, but please be considerate and trim some quotes before you reply. Most email client support the ability to select a piece of text, then click the Reply button, instantly trimming your quotes. Also, just about all email clients support a hierarchy of conversations making it easy for the person reading a message to refer to earlier posts if the want the full context. YOU DON'T NEED TO QUOTE EVERYTHING!

As as example of how terrible this is, just take a look at the "Interface syntax: Is possible don't use specialize in mode objfpc?" message thread. Probably 85% of that thread has message of about 20+ lines of quoted text with a 2 or 3 line reply. I have to scroll 2+ pages before I can see the actual reply text. Now imagine the pain you cause people using screen readers!

Come on people, stop being so lazy!

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

I'm not the list admin,

And hence please send such remarks to the list admin, rather than to the list.

Thank you.

Jonas

One of the fpc mailing list admins (contact address: )

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Most email client support the ability to select a piece of text, then click the Reply button, instantly trimming your quotes.

[last word on this]

For Gmail users, I did this so long ago, I didn't realise it wasn't enabled as standard. To enable this, go into Settings -> Labs -> enable "Quote selected text".

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

For Gmail users, I did this so long ago, I didn't realise it wasn't enabled as standard. To enable this, go into Settings -> Labs -> enable "Quote selected text".

Thanks, didn't know that.

Marcos Douglas

My GMail does not have such an option in Settings....

Bart

2015-07-22 20:18 GMT+02:00 Bart :

Strange. In Settings, go to the Labs tab, the setting should be named something like what Graeme wrote, but it could be translated if you are not in an English-speaking country. For example, in my GMail, it is called "Insérer le texte sélectionné"

Frederic Da Vitoria wrote

Strange. In Settings, go to the Labs tab, the setting should be named something like what Graeme wrote,

There simply is nosuch tab.

but it could be translated if you are not in an English-speaking country.

I use GMail in English lanuage.

Bart

Can you all please move this discussion off-list or to the fpc-other list?

Thanks,

Jonas
FPC mailing lists admin

are you using the plain html interface or the fancier one?

i have the fancy one... i click on the gear under my name in the far right top corner... from there i select "settings"... then across the top of the resulting page is a blue set of links right beside the red "compose" link... the 8th one over is "Labs"... 3rd from the right end...