[fpc-other] What does Embarcadero spend there time on

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2013-03-08 16:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
> I really don't want to prolong this and perhaps upset more people than 
> necessary, but has it occurred to you that that's how mailing lists work 
> and that possibly your expectations are unreasonable?


Unreasonable? Not at all. Maybe I just remember the days of Fidonet
where more people adhered to netiquette. I guess it was contributed to
the fact that messages had to travel via dial-up modems across the world
[I was part of that process]. Millions of discussions happened every
day, and simply quoting what was needed for context worked very well
then. Why suddenly doesn't that work now?

Also take in consideration people with disabilities using something like
screen readers. Having to sit for 15 minutes listening to 96+ lines of
quoted text, just to get to the final punchline... the reply of 2-3
lines. And then this process happening for every single message in the
FPC & Lazarus mailing lists!!!

Simply stripping out quotes take a mere second.



Regards,
  - Graeme -

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