On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jeff Walther <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 24, 5:42 pm, Joshua Juran <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you really want people to stop top-posting, get Google, Apple, and > > whoever else to fix their email clients. > > As long as there are folks who consider it their right to be > inconsiderate, that will be a lost battle. The clients contribute, > but the apologists who try to justify not taking a moment to make > their messages readable are the real problem. > It is conceivable that someone who uses gmail exclusively through the web client is unaware that other email clients do not auto-hide quoted text... the defaults for the web gmail will look considerate enough for other web gmail users, with gmail replacing all quoted text in a top-posted reply with "Show quote text" hyperlink which will auto-expand into the full quoted text but suppress it's display by default. Gmail has been around for 7 years at this point, so maybe there are people who know nothing else... ? (Disclosure: I grew up on the internet in the early '90s, spent quite some time on Usenet, and picked up 'good' nettique there... but I have a feeling there are more 'new timers' than 'old timers' now...) - Nate -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
