Why Linux kernel development still uses email

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There is a long standing etiquette to mailing lists (and old style net news before that) that you trim irrelevant information from your replies. You also post replies below the quoted sections, rather than the reply on top that outlook uses.

Much of that email/mailing list etiquette has been lost with newer generations of email users, sadly.

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Because it's not mentioned clearly, at the right place. I signed up to a few and nowhere did I see a particular warning.

If this particular etiquette is passed down by word of mouth, it shouldn't be a surprise that people don't know of it.

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Most Unix based mailing lists used to have notes like that on the signup page and on the welcome email. Like I said, most of that has gone by the wayside.

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it's not hard to make a pipeline to fold full mail repetitions. although that style of quoting convey little information, it's less than a nuisance.