Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
On 6/10/05, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote:
> * to see the reply first (for those who have just finished reading
> the previous message)
>
> It seems this is a problem resolvable by technology. Set the mail
> reader to start a message display at the bottom of the message.
This doesn't work well if you have a long response, not because the
responder failed to properly trim the message they are responding to,
but simply that they added a lot of information.
The resolution to the problem is usually a matter of trimming
irrelevent material from the quote.
That said, the mutt mail client has options to skip past blocks of
quoted content and to hide quoted content entirely (of course this
requires that the responder use the standard quoting technique of
interleaved/bottom posting and indenting quoted material with greater
than characters).
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David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk>
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