Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:05:03 +1100 From: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trimming... Re: I need some swap partion help on new 10.1 install Message-ID: <54AF1B2F.3060107@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <1420756718.14601.126.camel@freebsd.org> References: <20150102210855.GE867@rancor.immure.com> <20150102144223.14a2987e@nunki.holyordnance.org> <20150102215604.GF867@rancor.immure.com> <20150102145801.6ea92658@nunki.holyordnance.org> <6b9041859ceb265eedaf6f56f9178a7b@ultimatedns.net> <20150102163539.1eaadbc7@nunki.holyordnance.org> <20150103172527.GI867@rancor.immure.com> <201501081153.t08BrQkU054569@dyslexicfish.net> <54AF045C.5080502@swin.edu.au> <1420756718.14601.126.camel@freebsd.org>
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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
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