On 09/16/2020 09:45 AM, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > We could stick to "strictly business"; which I am sure would please the > no-nonsense people here, but alienate others. For what it's worth, I also > don't like reading the threads when they get too far disconnected from the > original topic. But how far is too far? No jokes at all? No witty retorts? That's a completely different topic; we're talking about seemingly endless levels of untrimmed quotes that one has to scroll through to get to a very short reply at the bottom. Makes it very difficult to read and follow a discussion. (Personally, I like to see a little personal banter and joking; it helps one get to know the folks we're communicating with. It does go a bit too far sometimes, but for me it only becomes irritating when these two problems are combined -- page after page after page of untrimmed, now-irrelevant quotes many levels deep, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, just to find a line or two of something completely irrelevant at the bottom.) -- PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm