[...smartphones...]. However its really sad how
limited in some
areas these are. The new ones are much better but whilst I can
download an app to [...], I don't even have the option to change the
view zoom in the mail reader on my no old-fashioned Some Experia X8
with Android 2.1.
Some supposedly-smart phones have amazingly dumb MUAs, it's true. But
this is of only minor relevance, because...
So if you insist on ignoring things that we can't
change then you may
well miss some interesting, but wrongly trimmed e-mails.
...saying you "can't change" them is, at the very least, somewhat
disingenuous. You can't change *them*, maybe, but you can change the
style of your interaction with the list. You are the one choosing, by
your choice of software proxy, to manifest those qualities in your
posts.
Top-posting no-trimmers might have something interesting to say, it's
true. But the assorted costs involved (meaning everything from the
additional time it takes to convert them into something understandable
to the costs of encouraging, by cooperating with, arrogant rudeness)
generally make it not worth the time and effort to figure out whether
there is anything interesting there, and, if so, what.
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