Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Martin Trautmann
Am 17. Mai 2018 02:01:42 MESZ schrieb Akkana Peck : >tech-lists writes: > You'd really prefer to make >several separate related replies one right after the other on the >same topic, rather than one reply with all your comments? Absolutely yes! Anything else will destroy proper threading. --

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Martin Trautmann
Am 17. Mai 2018 05:15:33 MESZ schrieb Cameron Simpson : >I've also seen replies come back from people unused to inline response >with >their reply slap in the middle of the quoted text because they've not >added a >blank line. I don't know exactly what's happening at their end, but at >my end

Re: 怎么从mutt-users@mutt.org里把自己的邮箱删掉?

2018-05-16 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:46AM +0800, xiaoxiao198502 wrote: > 怎么从mutt-users@mutt.org里把自己的邮箱删掉? mailto:mutt-users-requ...@mutt.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14May2018 12:15, Mark H. Wood wrote: I haven't seen a phone-resident MUA or a webmail thingy that I would choose to use if I had another way. But a modern phone makes a nice terminal. What do you do about typing? I pretty much don't use my phone for email at all, largely because the typin

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13May2018 19:15, Martin Trautmann wrote: Am 13. Mai 2018 17:12:14 MESZ schrieb tech-lists : No!! ;) and you're missing the point (IMOHO) :( basically, people quote back way too much. This is the issue. Most email apps allow threaded mail, so very little need to quote whole screeds. IB

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13May2018 19:53, Florian Gamböck wrote: On 2018-05-13 09:22, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:44:49PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: The key, I've learned, is to teach them about bottom-posting. [...]I now try to remember to put "see my responses in-line below" as the first lin

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread David Young
You can come back out from under your desk, now. I want to hide under there. A couple thoughts: Sometimes I scroll through email conversations on the iPhone---I use the "next message" button as a last resort. I find that if quotes are not trimmed, then it does not matter whether they are at the

怎么从mutt-users@mutt.org里把自己的邮箱删掉?

2018-05-16 Thread xiaoxiao198502
怎么从mutt-users@mutt.org里把自己的邮箱删掉?

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Akkana Peck [05-16-18 20:03]: [...] > Of course, in this case I could have simply replied to your message > and let tech-lists' quote be >>, but what if you hadn't quoted the > relevant part of the earlier message? You'd really prefer to make > several separate related replies one right after t

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

2018-05-16 Thread Akkana Peck
tech-lists writes: > But inline quoting has its own issues. Multiple inline quotes from multiple > messages can get messy. IMOHO messier than just bottom posting, which is at > least logically chronological. Agreed -- sometimes I wish there was a flag to differentiate the "> " characters somehow.