Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 22:45:53 schrieb Dale: I was also hoping you could see the humor in my reply as well. Well, I did :) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, thomas blomme wrote: Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off? I think Gmail (and alpine) pretty much do the right thing (except for sticking in some blank lines at the beginning). It's best to put the cursor at the top so that you can trim what you're quoting down

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, William Hubbs wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:17:04PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I don't know about mutt, but there's a flag in alpine to color quoted text. It might be possible to get your screen reader to use different voices for different colors

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:51:41 +0100 AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote: The problem is that there's no consensus. I top post because I think it's much more sensible. Others think otherwise. I live with it. It's the people who refuse to live with differences of opinion that are the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I don't normally get involved in these threads, but I want to point out another reason for top posting. As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip over all of the quoted material. I find it more convenient sometimes to hear the newest

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Marc Meyer
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. Whats the point of quoting then? M.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Marc Meyer wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. Whats the point of quoting then? M. most

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip over all of the quoted material. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip over all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread thomas blomme
2009/4/28 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, because I don't know of a way to make my screen

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 21:26, thomas blomme blommetho...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off? Not that i know of. But there is a Quote selected text feature in labs. Ward

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM, thomas blomme blommetho...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/28 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: As a blind computer user, sometimes it is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread thomas blomme
2009/4/28 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM, thomas blomme blommetho...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/28 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Dale
thomas blomme wrote: 2009/4/28 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM, thomas blomme blommetho...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off? Gmail does proper quoting, it just puts the cursor in the wrong place by

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Also as Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you have highlighted -- a great feature that I miss from my old OS/2 email client. kmail does that - I use kmail for all my 6 email accounts - including google mail.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Daniel de Oliveira
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076 Better Gmail has an option to bottom post, also, Folder4Gmail (because I also use gmail as imap, and looks better). -- Daniel de Oliveira Network and System Analyst Security Specialist IBM RISC Specialist IBM Storage Specialist Linux/Unix

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 21:45:34 schrieb Dale: I always put the pointer where I want my cursor to be and then click. Works every time for me. Now that you mention it - yes, works fine for me to ;) Worth a FAQ entry. *SCNR* Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 21:47:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Also as Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you have highlighted -- a great feature that I miss from my old OS/2 email client. kmail does that - I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2009 21:47:29 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 28 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: Also as Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you have highlighted -- a great feature that I miss

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:51:14 +0200, Marc Meyer wrote: Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. Whats the point of quoting then? Sothe recipient has the conversation in context, yet individual users with special

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 21:45:34 schrieb Dale: I always put the pointer where I want my cursor to be and then click. Works every time for me. Now that you mention it - yes, works fine for me to ;) Worth a FAQ entry. *SCNR* Bye... Dirk I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Neal and all, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:02:30 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. Well, I use mutt when