Lookout is another. I have to manually edit each line to turn this into a bottom post. They totally dropped the Usenet style reply option in the Office 2003 release.
Bob McConnell -----Original Message----- From: Zachary Zebrowski [mailto:zak.zebrow...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:38 AM To: John SJ Anderson Cc: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: John SJ Anderson is Perl Beginners list moderator ++ some mail clients (eg. Gmail) make it very hard to bottom post. Thanks for not excluding me. :) On Oct 6, 2011 11:28 AM, "John SJ Anderson" <geneh...@genehack.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:51, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to put a question. Is top-posting accepted on the list? > > I've thought about this for a while, and I think I've finally got > something that should make everybody about equally annoyed. (There is > no solution to this problem that will please everybody, or even please > a sizable majority. It is the "toilet paper over or under?" of the > mailing list world.) > > Let me preface this by saying that my personal preference is for > bottom-posting. I cut my teeth on Usenet and large mailing lists and > bottom-posting *with editting* seems like a sensible way to > communicate to me. That said, I've also made my peace with shifting > into "top-posting mode" when I'm dealing with people who don't have my > preferences or experiences. > > So (and I will include a version of this in a "list culture" section > that I will be adding to the FAQ): > > * We prefer bottom-posting but we will tolerate top posters. > * We may *politely* _ask_ people to bottom-post. > * We will not demand or order people to bottom-post. > * We are free to not reply to people who top-post, or to otherwise ignore them. > > (Aside from the "don't demand/order top-posting", I think this is a > fair synopsis of current list behavior, which was a large factor in > this decision.) > > Thanks for raising the issue, Octavian. > > chrs, > john. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
