On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 00:18 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > I'm perplexed. Putting the sig at the end of a top posting will cause > > everything after the posting itself to be cut from the reply; it will > > remove the message to which I'm replying. > > So don't top post. > > > In other words, it will do > > only too good a job of keeping messages short. When I type in a sig by > > hand to a top post, I put it after my (top) post, rather than at the end > > of the whole message; > > So if you've finished your message by adding a signature, why then put > in a load of superfluous text after it? If the quoted messages are > important, then put them in the text, if they aren't don't include them.
Different mailing lists have different customs. In almost all technical mailing lists the custom is bottom posting, or (as here) middle posting, with comments after the relevant section. In many general mailing lists, in particular my own neighborhood list, the invariable custom is top posting. Here the custom is new material, then signature, then selected quotes from from old material. In general: Top posting: good; Bottom posting: good; Mixing top and bottom posting: bad. > > I might say, as an aside, that some mail composers that I've used can > > outsource the composition editor to an external editor. MH (now > > hopelessly obsolete) did this, which was a feature I liked. Ckeditor, > > among others, could support this function in Evolution. > > Edit -> Plugins -> External Editor -> Configuration Thanks much, I hadn't been aware of this. -- All the best - jon Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
