On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:32:25PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Phil Labonte wrote: > > I mean if you cannot follow a post without quoting text... > when I grep through my mailbox for a conversation I had a week ago, it's > useful to get the background info out of the same message. If I have to > locate the whole thread that's time consuming parcticularly if the > conversation takes days... I totally agree w/r/t reasons for quoting / trimming properly, BUT... since you use Pine, you can enable threaded message viewing (with or without graphical threads), and then search the mailbox. Mutt gives you even more power in this regard. w
