On 04.05.2011 01:18, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: --- Original Message ---
> David Lawler wrote: > >> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> >>> Put your reply under the quoted material and prune everything after >>> it (material to which you're not replying) so the sig immediately >>> follows your bottom-posted reply. >> >> That would work if I bottom-posted. However, 98% of my email and >> newsgroups are not technically-oriented (where bottom-posting seems >> to be the standard), and it would drive the others crazy, top-posting >> is the standard for them. Also, I thread all my inbound email. By the >> time a thread gets to be 10 or 15 (or more) messages long, wading >> through all those messages to find the latest message becomes a >> tremendous waste of time. >> >> Otherwise your idea would work. Stanimir's does exactly what I >> needed. > > OK. > > Still, outside of a tech-support context, pruning is a good practice > regardless of your other choices. There's generally no need to retain > the entire thread in every message, it just becomes needless clutter. > All true, but in the final analysis it boils down to simply "do as the Romans do". If the "group" top posts, you top post - if they trim, you trim and so on ... peace and harmony prevail. -- *Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion* www.ufaq.org Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Flock - Thunderbird Disclaimer: I Do Not Own This Place Thus I Have No Official Say-So!! _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
