Unfortunately, gmail seems to force me into top posting by opening up my reply with the previous text at the bottom an d hidden below three dots.
Especially on a tablet, where it is difficult to do anything more sophisticated than touchong a virtual keyboard with my thumb hoping I won't need punctuation beyond a comma or period, I have completely given up doing anything different. Yes, long threads do get incredibly confusing. David C On Sat, Jan 12, 2019, 4:30 PM aeg via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 21:15, aeg via gnucash-user< > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:>> It's good to see that the formatting > issue is being addressed and my suggestion is as follows...> - Italicise > all quoted text from previous contributors. > Tricky for those that do not want (or cannot) use html formatting.Also > most mail clients use one of the common techniques foridentifying quoted > text. > > This is a pity because I find many of the GnuCash posts very difficult to > follow as they are usually formatted. What about indenting? Is that > available to all? > > > > - Delete any previously posted text that is irrelevant or duplicated. > Certainly. I notice that you have not done this yourself. > > I thought all of the text I quoted (left in) was related to my post; I had > certainly deleted a substantial amount of text from the original posts that > was not related to formatting. However, when I wrote that, I was really > thinking of the very lengthy posts that contain several re-quoted passages > from a long thread. > > > ...> - Start with an introductory comment at the top (if required). > > Not usually necessary. > Colin > > Agreed, but note that I did add "if required" because there have been > occasions where an initial comment has been helpful. > Alan > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
