On 8/11/06, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:59 +0200, ZaxX wrote:
> > It's both pityful so see people have no idea how to handle replies these
> > days and harder to follow a discussionthread when people simply doesn't
> > follow Netiquette.

To quote klapmuetz, who was quoting someone else:

A. Becuase it breaks the flow of normal conversation.
Q. Why does top-posting suck?


> Another thing is HTML mail on mailinglists, I think Judd should either
> auto-convert it to plaintext, or reject the mail. The combination of
> on-top-reply and HTML mail makes it impossible to read these messages,
> as it's nowhere clear what is new text and what is a quote.

Yes!  I hateses html mails.  We could probably very easilly pipe
text/html through links -dump or something...

> Another thing is quoting: some people include the archlinux mailinglist
> footer in their quotes, which is silly: at the time the message arrives
> at mailman, there will be two footers in the same message.

I always make it a point to remove those, unless they're deeply
nested.... then I don't want to worry about proper >>>>>>>
alignment....

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