On 2009-03-20, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well quoted, top-posted messages are the easiest for me to deal with > on a handheld. The problem with virtually all top-posted replies is that the authors don't bother to edit the quoted material. They just mash the reply button and start typing in their reply where ever the cursor lands. Plus the bottom-quoted material generally includes an unreasonable amount of header information which one has to scroll past. > I can swallow either top or bottom post, really, but have great > appreciation for a well-quoted message that I don't have to scroll up > and down in to follow the quoting. The problem is that most messages are not "well-quoted"; another symptom of the "me first" culture. > In-line quoting is the worst to handle because line wraps are not > pretty on a handheld. Un-wrapped lines (e.g. flowed text) are not pretty on the text-mode news-readers that many of us use. -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
