Helge Kruse <[email protected]> writes: >> This interface "improvement" also effectively enforces top-posting: it takes >> extra effort to post replies in the middle of quotes (like a conversation) >> and most people don't care. > > I am in the "e-mail world" for some decades. It was always a good > style to write the answer on top of all other text and to not delete > anything that has written before.
In a mailing list? No. Never. Absolutely not. Please look up any kind of "netiquette" you can find on the net. The _only_ situation where top-posting makes _any_ kind of sense is when communicating with the likes of technical support. > This makes it easy to save one late copy of the e-mail conversation > and more important to invite more people to the conversation by > extending the CC list. If you quote _properly_, namely by _only_ leaving the material _in_ _place_ that is _relevant_ for the context of the _current_ discussion, inviting anybody in is possible at any point of time. Yes, it is bad style to post with crucial context missing. But no, not every part of a threads history is crucial context. Not even of the last mail. > The Gmail interface support this usable behavior of the user with this > improvement. Ahhahhahahahhahahahahahahahah!!! It is obvious to anybody with a brain that storing and sending the same message content _again_ for every single mail is ludicrous and leads to quadratic network and storage capacity requirements, only limited by today's people's inability to lead an extended conversation. When I write a book, I don't feel compelled to append all previous chapters in reverse order at the end of each chapter. > Mailing lists use the e-mail transport mechanism to build a community. > Here you have invited everybody who has subscribed to the list. Cc is also possible when using a mailing list, and a number of LilyPond mailing lists are open for non-subscribers as well. So that's not an absolute criterion. > We just use the medium to have something like a forum without using a > dedicated tool. The pros and cons of e.g. Stackoverflow have been > discussed before. The technical mean what would fit best would have > been the usenet, but that's dead. I am actually reading this list via nntp (news.gmane.org). > Finally we use e-mail in a way different from the mainstream. No, we don't. None of my friends top-posts. > So we will have to live with improvements that doesn't fit with our > requirements. An "improvement" that _does_ _not_ _scale_ is no improvement. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
