On 26 Jul 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> No, if it's a general reply you should remove everything (the good
> version) (because every good mailer as a thread option that enables the
> look of the original message), or leave everything and reply at the bottom
> (because when I want to read the original message, with your solution I
> would have to first scroll down, read, then scroll up, read the answer;
> opposite would save one scroll and would be far more logical in the sense
> of presenting first the question, second the answer)
OK, first let me say that I think your posts amount to a flame. This is
the same as saying "Using pine is wrong" or "Using RedHat is wrong" simply
because you would prefer (maybe) if everyone used gnus and Mandrake. This
is fine but do not force your opinion onto everyone... no one else has
complained about the way e-mails are answered.
Now, to get to your response. This is a mailing list but not a
newsgroup. Sometimes it is helpful to leave a short message as a reference
to a user. I have no idea what this has to do with threaded messages
(Could you explain?), and I also know that in France they do not read
bottom to top, so that if a reply is at the top of a message it probably
means that you don't have to scroll through the entire message. (Even this
is hard for me on a 28.8 modem!)
> Of course. That's what everyone should try to do; I certainly try to do
> so, and warmly encourages people who find that time-consuming to switch to
> Gnus news and mail reader and use the various available shortcuts (C-c
> C-e ; C-c C-z ; C-c C-v) For some help to switch to gnus please consult my
> mini howto:
I hope all this is not an attempt to get me to switch to gnus. In fact, I
read the gnus HOWTO on your site a couple days ago, and though I'd like to
try it... emacs has far too many sortcuts for me to remember! Then again
vi is bad about that, too. If you wanted to post a GNU emacs/gnus shortcut
reference on your site I may thn give it a try. Oh, and I do have to use
emacs at work, so I don't hate it, I'm just having a hard enough time
remembering the commands as it is.
Pine defaults to the top of a message when you hit "Reply", and I didn't
see an option to change this. But this is bad, too! I don't want to work
my way backwards through a message.
>
> > This is just how it is done, it's not like I got on the Internet yesterday
> > :) If you are talking about the FAQ I appogize, but I believe the FAQ has
> > the questions and responses in the correct order.
>
> What FAQ ?
Since your original post was in reply to the Cooker FAQ thread (?), I
thought that comment might have been about the FAQ... don't worry about it
:)
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Sincerely,
David Walluck
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