On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 03:31:38PM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> We have had 20 years or so to educate people to bottom post. We have almost
> entirely failed.
Judging by the message you are replying to, we failed but we did not
stop being smug prats.
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:44:49PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 03:23:45AM +, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > I also bottom post with some of my best friends who _are_ gmail users,
> > and they don't object.
>
> +1
>
So do I with family and friends.
> The key, I've le
For the current setup at this end here... an attitude of please
feel free replying unconfined.
A few, maybe more than a few contributors to a list and a few maybe more
than a few subscribers reading contributors' writings would allow
contributors the greatest possible freedom for posting style
ht
On So, 13 Mai 2018, Stefan Hagen wrote:
> HTML is not allowed on this list, so here is the HTML part for this mail:
> https://shell.srv.hagen.coffee/~sdk/textmail.html
Do you generate this somehow?
regards,
Christian
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One girl can be pretty -- but a dozen are only a chorus.
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On Sat, 12 May 2018, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 23:23:45
From: Ian Zimmerman
Reply-To: mutt-users@mutt.org
To: mutt-users@mutt.org
Subject: Re: Bottom posting v top posting
On 2018-05-13 09:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
Posting to this list yesterday and a recent incident wit
Christian Brabandt wrote:
Stefan Hagen wrote:
HTML is not allowed on this list, so here is the HTML part for this mail:
https://shell.srv.hagen.coffee/~sdk/textmail.html
Do you generate this somehow?
Of course I do.
My mutt configuration is here:
gopher://codevoid.de:70/1/git/dotfiles/files
On 2018-05-13 05:46, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Has mutt got something that can be added to a .muttrc file which
> positions the cursor in a reply automatically for bottom posting?
> With bottom posting what has me concerned is did I hit the downarrow
> key enough to get to the correct position for wr
Brian Salter-Duke writes:
> My partner reads gmail on her phone or tablet. [ ... ]
> If I had bottom posting, she would never have read my message, thinking
> that some how she had got her email back again.
If that's true, you're not trimming enough. The idea isn't to quote
the other person's enti
On 13/05/2018 00:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
The use of phones for email
alters the game. It is time we gave up bottom posting!
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 littl
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:52:23AM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> Posting to this list yesterday and a recent incident with my partner,
> prompts me to raise the issue of bottom posting. For a long time, mutters
> have fought battles and wars to get everybody to bottom post. It makes a lot
> of
On 18-05-13 09:52:23, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
Posting to this list yesterday and a recent incident with my partner,
prompts me to raise the issue of bottom posting. For a long time, mutters
have fought battles and wars to get everybody to bottom post. It makes a lot
of sense, but we have lost ev
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.
IBTD. Major e-mail tools, such as outlook,
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 05:49:54PM +0100, Ben Oliver wrote:
>
> The only exception is on those support emails where it says 'please post
> your reply above this line'
I just move the line (or copy what's below it to above it) so that I
can reply in context as normal.
--
Chris Green
On 2018-05-13 16:12, tech-lists wrote:
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.
My rule of thumb is usually, I quote as much text as is needed so that
my reply makes sense without searching o
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 have
occassionally used bottom-posting with contacts without warning, and
that has led to some confusion. I now try to remembe
* Akkana Peck [05-13-18 10:35]:
> Brian Salter-Duke writes:
> > My partner reads gmail on her phone or tablet. [ ... ]
> > If I had bottom posting, she would never have read my message, thinking
> > that some how she had got her email back again.
>
> If that's true, you're not trimming enough. Th
Top posting makes complicated scientific conversations with several
interanal threads impossible. "Bottom" posting - which is really
splitting the original email into parts (separated by blank lines for
visual clarity) allows people to hold very complex discussions.
The worst Top Posting case I e
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 05:43:53PM -0400, Thomas Schneider wrote:
...
>
> So Top posters never read further down the email, it's a total waste
> of bandwidth.
>
Another example of this: I typically bottom/in-line
respond even private emails. As most of you may
note I have a lot of personal info
On 18-05-13 17:34:21, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I really believe it (top-posting, full quoting) began with compuserve
and
aol, really discouraging time in history.
Definitely makes no sense other than 'gmail does it' or 'outlook does
it'
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