-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: >> On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Rick Thomas wrote in Article >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >>> gmane.linux.debian.user: >>> >>>> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html >>> Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people >>> utterly fail in grade school, or are they deliberately ignoring the flow of >>> language? > > [snipped stuff which should have been snipped by previous poster] > >> Their MS outlook defaults to top posting...therefore it must be ok. >> Microsoft said so =_) > > It could be argued that it defaults to putting the cursor at the top so > to enable easy snipping of unnecessary text. If it defaulted to bottom > posting then even less snipping would occur. :-( > > IMHO "top posting" is preferable to "bottom posting without snipping". > Also it is preferable to snip the sig and any disclaimers etc.
Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSrxiS9HxQb37XmcRAvLZAJkBvfEOjnWi4fxjplAJqMy321TI/QCgt7eR o9dI2nHlLx3f0zeVtv5PgmM= =h8tN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]