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.... _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
