On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 07:46:55AM +0100, Martin Gollowitzer wrote: > Hi, > > * Remco Rijnders <re...@webconquest.com> [110321 07:35, > mID <412.a...@winter.webconquest.com>]: > > > While I fully agree on bottom posting being preferred, I wonder if it's > > not a lost battle already. People quoting 'properly' are in such a > > minority that I don't think this can be changed around anymore. Of course, > > some fora will still be the exception to this, but I fear they will become > > less and less in number. Most of the guides on proper netiquette date from > > the previous century too and people don't seem interested anymore in doing > > things properly. > > This depends very much on the people you communicate with. People in the > Free Software are tend to do it "right" because when they start to use > e-mail regularly with others in this area, they are usually being asked > to use "proper" style :) I started with Free Software in the 21st > century and still learned to not use full quotes and top posting. The > first time I realized that proper e-mail style is useful was when I > started to read more mailinglists with rather high message volumes – you > just can keep a better overview with "correct" quoting :) > > Martin > > p.s. Even some of my non-techie friends realized the advantage of this > style after a short explanation ;) The real problem is actually MS > Outlook and its default settings.
And (as pointed out even on this thread), lately, also GMail and its default settings. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 because I didn't think of a good beginning of it.
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