2014-02-23 4:08 GMT+01:00 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org>:
> > On 02/22/2014 04:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> It is called bottom or in-line posting, and is preferred by the more >> technically inclined. >> > > Bottom and Top posting seems to be a personal preference often pursued > with religious zeal (as you mention below). While quickly browsing, top > posting is easier to follow unless your email client hides all previous > posts for you. I installed an extension to do this in Thunderbird; without > it, bottom posting is almost impossible to follow. The extension makes it > easy to follow ongoing conversations regardless, but is annoying if you > were not following things from the start and want to catch-up :-( > I don't use an email client, but the Gmail web interface also hides lines from previous posts. They are however easy to view if you need to. Unfortunately, top-posting seems to be the default mode for Gmail, but it's easy to work around. > > in-line posting seems to be assumed for Thunderbird. Makes the response > more like a conversation. > > > It is primarily Outlook users who prefer blind top-posting (ie, quoting >> the entire message they are replying to and adding their comment at the >> top). >> > > You must work hard to get Outlook to do anything else. I know you used to > be able to convince Outlook to do otherwise. I don't even know if you can > still do that. Every time MS releases a new version of something these > days, it usually feels like I need to relearn the product. It annoys me. > > My limited exposure says that every large company using Outlook likely > works in this way. > > > Most people who are rabidly anti bottom/inline posting will go out of >> their way to complain about how bad bottom posting is, and will invariably >> use BLIND bottom posting - quoting the ENTIRE message ABOVE your comment, >> which is admittedly way WORSE than blind top-posting - as examples of why >> bottom/inline posting is bad. They almost always simply refuse to even >> acknowledge the difference between BLIND bottom posting, and inline posting >> (quoting only the relevant portion, and putting your responses/comments >> AFTER the relevant quoted text, which is much cleaner and easier to read >> than even top-posting, mainly because you can clearly see the full context). >> >> You can make everyone angry and happy by doing both. Place your entire > message at both the top and the bottom :-) > And in-line. The angrier the better… Johnny Rosenberg > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
