Re: [OT] top posting
On Jan 14, 2008 4:58 PM, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:10:00AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Too bad the whole world doesn't use your mail reader. The whole world
> > should be forced to use the same mail reader, and the same office suit
> > and web browser while we're at it. On the same OS. Oh, wait, Microsoft
> > _is_ trying to accomplish that.
>
> I am using mutt, but I believe most mail readers thread emails for you.
Most, but not all. Microsoft email readers thread, but have a
tendency to break references in such a way that only other Microsoft
mail readers thread it right. This is something that can be solved
with "well, don't use that, then."
> All I am trying to point out is for a normal user ( ie somebody who is
> subscribed to the list), when a thread starts, you read them in date/time order
> as them come in, why seems illogical to have to scroll through stuff that you
> have just read. The exception is of course when you start a thread in the
> middle.
There are mail readers that collapse quoted text. GMail, for example.
Threads can't start in the middle, so the rest of that statement
really didn't make sense.
> > Also, your mail was _middle_posted_ and quoted every message before it
> > in full. You really are aiming for the worse of all worlds, aren't
> > you?
> I believe (maybe wrongly ) that this mailing list is a non top-posting list, I
> try and conform.
You believe correctly, though conversational quoting is something that
really should be an automatic, net-wide assumption. Anybody who gives
you grief for conversation quoting is either a newbie on the level we
haven't seen since AOL got out of the internet-connected BBS business,
or they repel all clue. Either way, they just aren't worth the time
to email if they're going to give you grief for conversational
quoting.
--
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca
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