> This interface "improvement" also effectively enforces top-posting: it takes > extra effort to post replies in the middle of quotes (like a conversation) > and most people don't care.
I am in the "e-mail world" for some decades. It was always a good style to write the answer on top of all other text and to not delete anything that has written before. This makes it easy to save one late copy of the e-mail conversation and more important to invite more people to the conversation by extending the CC list. The Gmail interface support this usable behavior of the user with this improvement. Mailing lists use the e-mail transport mechanism to build a community. Here you have invited everybody who has subscribed to the list. We just use the medium to have something like a forum without using a dedicated tool. The pros and cons of e.g. Stackoverflow have been discussed before. The technical mean what would fit best would have been the usenet, but that's dead. Finally we use e-mail in a way different from the mainstream. So we will have to live with improvements that doesn't fit with our requirements. Regards Helge _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
