On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:32 AM Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/8/21 7:36 AM, coolnodje wrote: > > > Please do not top post to the mailing list. > > I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. > > As a fellow gmail user, it helps to point out that Google makes it almost certain that new people will top-post. It's really not our fault. It's hard for us gmail users to notice the "..." at the bottom of the email, then to know that we are supposed to click on it, then we are supposed to go to the bottom of the newly-expanded text, and type our reply THERE. We don't even *know* we are top-posting due to the user interface Google provides. I keep wondering if it would be possible to adjust whatever software manages these mailing lists and implement a simple anti-top-posting feature... could it automatically reformat top-posts to be bottom-posts? I am a software developer, and I hereby volunteer to help if I can. I just don't know who has the authority here to support such a change.
-- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style