Guilty as Charged !

Yeap no love for mailing lists and even emails in total from me either. And
yes I am a big fan of top posting or whatever its called. I prefer reading
the reply first , see the quote later on. Having to scroll down a quote to
see a reply is killing my inner child. But I have no problem complying on
this. Whatever it takes to make people happy and smiley :)

The irony here is that mailing lists have been around for decades and still
email web clients have not adjusted to fit the needs of having a civil
reasonable conversation with people. People trying to claim that web is the
future of computing (or the present) , lets say I am not impressed at all.

Another proof that being popular does not make you useful. How come web is
such a big pile of mess ?

Frankly we should be very happy that we are a small community. Imagine this
problem scaled up to a language of 1-2 million users. Scary stuff !


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo
<[email protected]>wrote:

> 2013/12/17 Frank Shearar <[email protected]>:
> > On 17 December 2013 11:10, Göran Krampe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you use Gmail, doing the right thing is now _hard_. (It's a
> > click-the-ellipsis, then a find-the-place-to-edit, then hit return to
> > make a space for your words, then type, followed by scrolling back up
> > to that place because Gmail then jumps the edit position to the bottom
> > of the mail, followed by your actual reply.) This battle was lost a
> > decade ago, I'm afraid.
>
> I keep this "This battle was lost a decade ago, I'm afraid."
>
> Sadly, it is true.
> But at least we won the html vs plaintext one (or at least no one else
> cares).
>
> The mailing list format is not good for debate... using mails, in my
> opinion. Forums or other similar tools are better suited.
>
> Esteban A. Maringolo
>
>

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