Re: [Linux-users] Top posting
On 12 September 2013 21:58, Derek Smithies derek.smith...@gmail.com wrote: My personal view is that top posting is the default of most mail systems, and it is easier to not swim against the tide. Indeed, this is now the default with GMail too, much to my disdain :(. And Gmail makes it reasonably hard to avoid top posting, with ONE notable exception: If you highlight part of somebodies message, prior to selecting reply, it will quote only that part, and return you to a sane default of bottom posting it ( as I have done here ). -- Kent perl -e print substr( \edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\, \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 ); ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
[Linux-users] Top posting
I am bucking the orthodxy regarding top posting. I recently sent a reply to a person who uses a smart phone for emails. When asked if he had recievied my reply he said no, the email he got from me wes a bounce of his original email. Further faffing about established that the original email text in the reply had taken up all the screen, the text of my reply needed to be flicked up to be read. To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting. DISCUSS Cheers Ross Drummond ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Linux-users] Top posting
On Thu 12 Sep 2013 21:46:57 NZST +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting. If you're too lazy/whatever to trim your replies, you're not worth being read... And if the smart phone is smarter than its user, nuff said. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Linux-users] Top posting
Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 09/12/2013 10:04 PM: And if the smart phone is smarter than its user, nuff said. I do enjoy the English turn of phrase sometimes... Was reading something from a Pom and the word cleverphone was used, and I thought that was very well said. Could have been theregister.co.uk -- CF ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Linux-users] Top posting
I've interestingly noted that thunderbird (favoured by many of us) encourages bottom posting by it's default setting, but every time I set it up for someone (or myself) I always change that. I'd add that if I am coming in to a thread as the 2nd or subsequent reply, to follow what the method used already, so while I personally prefer top, I'll follow a bottom posted thread in my replies. Cheers, Roger On 12/09/13 21:58, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, we have discussed top posting. we agreed it was sensible to cut a lot of the old text out of the reply. I think we agreed that it does not matter which way you go (top or bottom) as long as you remove the old text. My personal view is that top posting is the default of most mail systems, and it is easier to not swim against the tide. Far too much time has been wasted in petty email wars over top vs bottom posting. Since smart phone usage is increasing all the time, it is considerate if you put your email in a format that is convenient for the maximum number of people. my view: Edit wisely, write clearly, and top post. Derek. On 12/09/13 21:46, Ross Drummond wrote: I am bucking the orthodxy regarding top posting. To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
