Watch your replies (was Kremen....)

Wed Sep 13 20:32:07 UTC 2006

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:

>> It's insulting
>> when you trim the message to a shorter statement that you are
>> responding to.  The other 18 lines may not have been important to this
>> particular response but they were not content free.
>
> If your content was in any way, interesting, then people
> will have read it in the message that you posted. I see
> no need to repeat a bunch of irrelevant text when I am
> only replying to one point in your email.
>
> Personally, I wish more people would trim away all the
> irrelevant junk when replying.

I'm not singling any one person out, but when a thread that started off 
talking about RIR policy issues and IP address portability debate gets 
this far off track, then it's time for that thread to die or be taken 
out-of-band.

Agreed?

jms