Kenneth Porter wrote at about 16:26:19 -0800 on Thursday, February 4, 2021: > --On Thursday, February 04, 2021 11:24 AM +0100 Sorin Srbu > <sorin.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'll continue to end-post as before. :-) > > Not end/bottom post! That's really no better than top-posting, because we > still have to scroll down through the massive post you're quoting. > > Brutally trim the post you're replying to and INTERLEAVE your reply. So > it's trimmed/interleave you want to go for on public mailing lists. > > Top-posting is fine for private/business where you add correspondents as > the conversation progresses. > > The biggest pain is finding an MUA that can support both and allows the > different quoting style. In interleaved, prefix the quote with "> ". In > top-post, copy the message below a separator line with no prefix. Has > anyone found a decent MUA that can do that? Emacs vm! It's all written in lisp allowing you to do whatever you want... Nothing more powerful, nothing more simple!
> I love the ancient Mulberry for > mailing lists. But it insists on prefix-quoting when I top-post. So does > Thunderbird, which I use in parallel to deal with HTML email (which is > useful for support for inline images, like when a customer is reporting a > broken product). > _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
