On 2/25/2012 9:00 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
O RLY?
YA VERILY
Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is that only the
semantic content matters, and that the message is the medium.
Non-geeks find this amusingly naive verging on childish.
Us geeks are (stereotypically) not very
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
You mean it doesn't thread the way you like. It does do threading
just not in the model you're used to.
Which could be the case as I'm more familiar and comfortable with the
way offline mail clients handle and
Ok, so teach me. If I'm relplying to multiple mails in a thread, how do I
reply to individual thoughts in these mails without 'copying and pasting'
from the respective mails?
Adit.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, so teach me. If I'm relplying to multiple mails in a thread, how do I
reply to individual thoughts in these mails without 'copying and pasting'
from the respective mails?
Why not reply to each individual email you are
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 06:29, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
So while you may not want to use anything else, or someone else may not want
to move beyond mutt and emacs (both of which I use and top post with too..) -
there's little or no connection between the client and
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Subject: Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)
Gmail on the web has its own idiosyncracies and some context sensitive
advertising that occasionally tends to the bizzarre
So while you may not want to use anything else, or someone else may not want to
move beyond mutt
On 2/25/2012 6:22 PM, thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still unsure why top posting has anything to do with Netiquette. Top
posting is what a lot of people are comfortable with, and is a commonly
accepted style. Its just an alternate way of doing things. Trying to say that
its bad etiquette looks
On 25-Feb-12 7:37 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
I'm still unsure why top posting has anything to do with Netiquette.
Top posting is what a lot of people are comfortable with, and is a
commonly accepted style. Its just an alternate way of doing things.
Trying to say that its bad etiquette looks
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang sir...@sirtaj.net wrote:
It's an argument that applies equally well to SMS-speak in email. There's no
loss in semantic content -
O RLY?
after a fashion - so why does syntax matter?
Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:52 AM, thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still unsure why top posting has anything to do with Netiquette. Top
posting is what a lot of people are comfortable with, and is a commonly
accepted style. Its just an alternate way of doing things. Trying to say
that its bad
Doesn't answer the question as to why top-posting is bad netiquette /
etiquette. Are IT guys just lazy scrollers? Or have they some secret
knowledge of techie anachronismic inefficiencies that we mere mortals are
not aware of?
On Feb 25, 2012 9:38 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb
On 25-Feb-12 9:46 PM, Aditya Kapil wrote:
Doesn't answer the question as to why top-posting is bad netiquette /
etiquette. Are IT guys just lazy scrollers? Or have they some secret
knowledge of techie anachronismic inefficiencies that we mere mortals
are not aware of?
Since this has been
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Gmail on the web has its own idiosyncracies and some context sensitive
advertising that occasionally tends to the bizzarre
That the Gmail WebUI doesn't allow any form of threading is still a
sore point. And,
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
Doesn't answer the question as to why top-posting is bad netiquette /
etiquette. Are IT guys just lazy scrollers? Or have they some secret
knowledge of techie anachronismic inefficiencies that we mere mortals are
not aware
On 2/25/2012 8:44 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
It doesn't help matters that the two most commonly used MUAs, Microsoft
Outlook and gmail, all but force you to top-post.
I'm using Thunderbird at the moment and it's also pretty bad. It's
likely that there's some obvious trick that I'm missing,
Apropos to nothing but the subject of this thread, I rarely ever top
post (unless from the mobile) because I used to be a techie and (also)
am used to very long, disconnected conversations within the same email
or post. Which is silly if you think about it but I'm too lazy to
start different
Sirtaj Singh Kang [2012-02-25 23:00]:
I'm using Thunderbird at the moment and it's also pretty bad. It's
likely that there's some obvious trick that I'm missing, but I have a
really hard time trimming quoted messages even in text-only mode.
What kind of problems?
I see you're using
On 2/25/2012 11:42 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
[snip]
What kind of problems?
Usually when I aggressively remove large chunks of text, the quoting
indent disappears and the remained quoted text becomes part of the
message body. This happens more often near the start of the message, as
if I'm
Sirtaj Singh Kang [2012-02-26 00:15]:
Usually when I aggressively remove large chunks of text, the quoting
indent disappears and the remained quoted text becomes part of the
message body.
That's odd, because you're replying in plaintext and not HTML. (The
quoting indent that shows up for
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:30:52PM +0530, Deepak Shenoy wrote:
Apropos to nothing but the subject of this thread, I rarely ever top
post (unless from the mobile) because I used to be a techie and (also)
am used to very long, disconnected conversations within the same email
or post. Which is
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Gmail on the web has its own idiosyncracies and some context sensitive
advertising that occasionally tends to the
On 26-Feb-12 12:15 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
Usually when I aggressively remove large chunks of text, the quoting
indent disappears and the remained quoted text becomes part of the
message body. This happens more often near the start of the message, as
if I'm deleting some hidden
If you include the parts of the message you are replying to, and
interleave your responses, I find the GMail model works pretty well. I
hated it when I first encountered it (and hated that I couldn't
delete messages) but now I find it natural.
But you can, no? I suspect you already know but
On 26-Feb-12 9:01 AM, Deepak Shenoy wrote:
But you can, no? I suspect you already know but if I pull down that
little down arrow on the top right hand corner of an individual
message inside a thread I get a delete option for only that message
(not the whole conversation)
The delete option in
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
If you include the parts of the message you are replying to, and
interleave your responses, I find the GMail model works pretty well. I
hated it when I first encountered it (and hated that I couldn't
delete messages)
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote:
This is pushing me in the direction of top-posting.
Why not push you in the direction of a new email program? What
features are becoming important in email programs these days? I know
that for me the decision to move to
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd had enough of the silliness of
pine/eudora/mulberry/outlook/mutt/thunderbird madness.
Should really read:
I'd had enough of the silliness of
pine/eudora/mulberry/outlook/mutt/thunderbird data migration madness.
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Subject: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)
Sent: Feb 25, 2012 00:45
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote:
This is pushing me in the direction of top-posting.
Why not push you in the direction of a new email program? What
features
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