I didn't read your message because it was below the fold :-). I was an inline/bottom poster for decades, but have discovered that top posting is better. You see the reply right away, and you have the entire thread for reference. I wasn't kidding, I no longer bother to scroll to see replies. With bottom or inline posting, folks are encouraged to throw away text. The lost context can be maddening.
Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: > * August Schwerdfeger <[email protected]> [10-15-21 22:26]: > > The common practice these days is top-posting, which is the default > > behavior in every mail client I have ever used (often, the only supported > > behavior), and I have never seen a client that one can set to top- or > > bottom-post on a per-recipient basis. Whenever I use a web-mail client that > > automatically folds up quoted text in a message, it never folds up anything > > if bottom-posting was used. > > > > Also, most mail clients support viewing messages in thread order, and > > reading bottom-posted messages as a continuous thread is even more of a > > pain than reading a top-posted message using the 1971-vintage Unix mail > > client. > > > > -- > > August Schwerdfeger > > [email protected] > > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 8:21 PM Andrew Greig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Michael Raider is correct, and for clarity this was on the thread "problem > > > installing darktable". > > > > > > Thunderbird does not have any way to set the default reply to the bottom > > > of the thread, so there is some work involved to bottom post. I used to > > > use > > > Evolution as my mail client and I don't remember when I stopped using it. > > > It did have a box to check for bottom posting. It is a pain to have the > > > full conversation in each successive email. > > > > > > This is not a "hill to die on" for me, I merely took up Patrick's comments > > > but it would work better if we all, as a list, declared the convention to > > > be followed and stuck to it. Especially trimming the thread to the last > > > two > > > or three contributions. > > > -- > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > darktable user mailing list > > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > > > you most have lived a very sheltered existence to have attained your ripe > old age :( > > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri > Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/, GnuPG ID:610BD9AD ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
