On 23/11/11 10:07, Steve Fisher wrote:
> I hate bottom posting, I don't want to scan/re-read a thread I have
> been following over and over. I always delete the original email I
> reply to and quote it where ever necessary. This is particularly bad
> if someone replies to a digest, I just give up
On 29 November 2011 10:13, James Tait wrote:
> On 28/11/11 10:07, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 28 November 2011 09:44, Jon Reynolds
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, November 24, 2011 19:36, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> Would you say your signature should be at the complete bottom, including
>>> all quoted text,
On 28/11/11 10:07, Colin Law wrote:
On 28 November 2011 09:44, Jon Reynolds wrote:
On Thu, November 24, 2011 19:36, Liam Proven wrote:
Would you say your signature should be at the complete bottom, including
all quoted text, or just after your immediate reply?
I would say that if your signatu
On 28 November 2011 09:44, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> On Thu, November 24, 2011 19:36, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>>> Would setting the signature at the bottom be best practice?
>>
>> Yes. 4 lines, ideally, 5 at a push. Legal disclaimers are pointless
>> and unenforcable so do not use them. Include some non
On Thu, November 24, 2011 19:36, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> Would setting the signature at the bottom be best practice?
>
> Yes. 4 lines, ideally, 5 at a push. Legal disclaimers are pointless
> and unenforcable so do not use them. Include some non-email contact
> details.
>
Would you say your signatu
On 24/11/11 19:29, Andres wrote:
I know there is a setup somewhere in evolution to enable bottom posting but i
have not found it in thunderbird.
In Account Settings > Composition & Addressing.
mac
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On 24/11/11 19:36, Liam Proven wrote:
On 24 November 2011 19:29, Andres wrote:
If a mailing list can get away with having a rule against
top-posting then that's great, but most venues can't.
Hi,
is snipping what i just did? I.e. Select the stuff that is redundant delete
it and post beneth?
On 24 November 2011 19:29, Andres wrote:
>
>> If a mailing list can get away with having a rule against
>> top-posting then that's great, but most venues can't.
>>
> Hi,
>
> is snipping what i just did? I.e. Select the stuff that is redundant delete
> it and post beneth?
Yes, but leave attributio
> If a mailing list can get away with having a rule against
> top-posting then that's great, but most venues can't.
>
Hi,
is snipping what i just did? I.e. Select the stuff that is redundant delete it
and post beneth?
Would setting the signature at the bottom be best practice?
Is there a t
Hi Jon,
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:45:44AM -, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
> just top-post?
I'm fairly confident that email will be dead—even in a corpo
On 23/11/11 11:01, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Only if they'd bottom posted all the time and never snipped, which
would be infuraiating for everybody else already involved.
Well said! I get really annoyed when someone bottom posts a one-liner
and I have to scroll down three screens full of old message
On 23/11/11 09:45, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> I totally agree with and understand the logic behind the top posting
> argument. It makes perfect sense to have the flow of conversation
> chronologically downwards, so reading over a conversation is easy.
>
> But, as we all know, hardly anyone, except for
On 23/11/11 10:10, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I am not a computer nerd, just an 'old codger'. When I started to use
email I was instructed to put my remarks after the lines upon which I
was commenting and to snip out superfluous material...
Being an old codger, too, I agree with Norman. The ke
Juan J. wrote:
> That's the beauty of enterprisey communications where lots of people
> are CCed and most of them barely understands email. Different people
> replies in different ways: plain text, HTML, some quote using '>',
> others use colours, others a TAB (?), and others don't care and it's
>
Jon Reynolds wrote:
> On Wed, November 23, 2011 10:07, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > ...At work, my boss
> > may have a long back and forth with a supplier, and then suddenly
> > include me with a 'What do you think?' type message. In that
> > situation, I am glad that they have top posted, including al
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 10:33 +, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> On Wed, November 23, 2011 10:07, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > ...At work, my boss
> > may have a long back and forth with a supplier, and then suddenly
> > include me with a 'What do you think?' type message. In that
> > situation, I am glad that
Lol, Good get-out clause
Am I allowed to 'lol'? ;)
On Wed, November 23, 2011 10:31, Alan Bell wrote:
> The logical solution to this debate is to start the practice of sandwich
> posting, in which your reply is placed at the top, as per top posting,
> and then copied and pasted verbatim to the bo
On Wed, November 23, 2011 10:07, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> ...At work, my boss
> may have a long back and forth with a supplier, and then suddenly
> include me with a 'What do you think?' type message. In that
> situation, I am glad that they have top posted, including all the old
> messages, as I can
The logical solution to this debate is to start the practice of sandwich
posting, in which your reply is placed at the top, as per top posting,
and then copied and pasted verbatim to the bottom, thereby bottom
posting. Threads can then be read chronologically from the middle in
either directio
>
> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
> just top-post?
>
I am not a computer nerd, just an 'old codger'. When I started to use
email I was instructed to put my remarks after the lin
I use gmail which compiles all the individual emails into one conversation.
This means unless you delete the original message I end up with eleventy
five repeated posts!
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On 23 November 2011 09:45, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
> just top-post?
Bottom posting only makes sense when people cut the quoted text. If
people are goin
I hate bottom posting, I don't want to scan/re-read a thread I have been
following over and over. I always delete the original email I reply to and
quote it where ever necessary. This is particularly bad if someone replies
to a digest, I just give up!
Some of the guys on my local LUG are totally
On 23 Nov 2011, at 09:55, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:45 +, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
>> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
>> just top-post?
>
> You
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:45 +, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> [...]
>
> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
> just top-post?
You're not alone :)
I personally hate when the original mail has
Hi All,
I totally agree with and understand the logic behind the top posting
argument. It makes perfect sense to have the flow of conversation
chronologically downwards, so reading over a conversation is easy.
But, as we all know, hardly anyone, except for mostly (can't back this up)
computer ner
2007/9/27, Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> You can send googlemail in plaintext if you want (it's under the
> options, and it's how I'm sending this message).
>
> However, you have to remember every time you reply to a thread to
> strip out the little *quoted text* line that often appears under
You can send googlemail in plaintext if you want (it's under the
options, and it's how I'm sending this message).
However, you have to remember every time you reply to a thread to
strip out the little *quoted text* line that often appears under your
replies. The entire thread is actually sitting u
Google mail is damn annoying.
On 26/09/2007, Terence Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:42 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> >
> >
> >> His e-mails aren't very readable in thunderbird either.
> >>
> >
> > Interesting, they look fine in Evolution.
> >
> >
Alan Pope wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:42 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
>
>
>> His e-mails aren't very readable in thunderbird either.
>>
>
> Interesting, they look fine in Evolution.
>
> I wonder if this is an html formatting issue perhaps?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
I always disable HTML by
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:33:31 +0100
Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:42 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
>
> > His e-mails aren't very readable in thunderbird either.
>
> Interesting, they look fine in Evolution.
>
> I wonder if this is an html formatting issue perhaps?
Th
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:42 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> His e-mails aren't very readable in thunderbird either.
Interesting, they look fine in Evolution.
I wonder if this is an html formatting issue perhaps?
Cheers,
Al.
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Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 18:58:49 Alec Wright wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:55 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
>>> *** Please stop Top-Posting ***
>>>
Two is fine
> How many sugars?
>
>> I'd rather have coffee if possible.
>>
>>> Coffee or te
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 18:58:49 Alec Wright wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:55 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> > *** Please stop Top-Posting ***
> >
> > > Two is fine
> > >
> > >> How many sugars?
> > >>
> > >>> I'd rather have coffee if possible.
> > >>>
> > Coffee or tea?
>
> I was just
2007/9/26, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:55 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> > *** Please stop Top-Posting ***
> >
> > > Two is fine
> > >> How many sugars?
> > >>> I'd rather have coffee if possible.
> > Coffee or tea?
>
> I was just about to ask what this list's pol
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:55 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> *** Please stop Top-Posting ***
>
> > Two is fine
> >> How many sugars?
> >>> I'd rather have coffee if possible.
> Coffee or tea?
I was just about to ask what this list's policy on top/bottom posting
was...
Thanks for clearing that up
-
*** Please stop Top-Posting ***
> Two is fine
>> How many sugars?
>>> I'd rather have coffee if possible.
Coffee or tea?
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>> Although it has been requested that the subject of forums be dropped,
>> I was thinking (yes dangerous I know), is it possible to build a forum
>> style front end onto mailman? It already holds archives of every
>> message made to the list. If we use a front end to mailman it will not
>> be a
On 06/11/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will just ask one more question, after all I said I am still receiving
> mail. Why
Have you followed the link at the bottom if each mail and unsubcribed?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk and scroll right
to the bottom.
You
u-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
> /*Subject:*/ Re: [ubuntu-uk] top posting row (was Uk Loco team forums)
>
> On Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 12:49:20PM GMT, Andy wrote:
> >
> > I made a stupid mistake I openly admit that, I should have not said
I will just ask one more question, after all I said I am still receiving mail. Why
---Original Message---
From: John K Masters
Date: 06/11/2006 19:08:28
To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] top posting row (was Uk Loco team forums)
On Mon Nov 06
On Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 12:49:20PM GMT, Andy wrote:
>
> I made a stupid mistake I openly admit that, I should have not said
> anything, I should have been more welcoming, I am sorry for my
> transgressions. Splitting or 'forking' the group due to the stupid
> actions of one person (me) is not goin
When I first joined the lug mailing list it was pointed out to me that
I made several mistakes first of these was top posting.
The reason is was given for this being wrong where put very simply.
When a conversation is in flow it is harder to understand (for
everyone else) what is being said when t
On 05/11/06, Caroline Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ubuntu UK isn't actually recognised by the Ubuntu community council
> currently so if the forum community wanted to fork they can certainly do
> so. Your sheer weight of numbers should ensure you prevail.
Now that is really not helpful is it?
Quoting Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:39:01PM +, Paul Mellors wrote:
>> Just because people want it, although not everyone, i'm setting up an
>> unnoficial ubuntu-uk forum.
>
> I'd strongly recommend against that. Not because of my opposition to
> forums - but
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:39:01PM +, Paul Mellors wrote:
> Just because people want it, although not everyone, i'm setting up an
> unnoficial ubuntu-uk forum.
I'd strongly recommend against that. Not because of my opposition to forums -
but if we have
them then IMO they should be on the "o
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:04:59PM +, Caroline Ford wrote:
> Well this is the only email list I'm on that is so aggressive to
> newbies.
>
Heh, you're clearly not on many lists :) and :(
> I've *never* seen this sort of aggression or complaints on the evils of
> "top posting" elsewhere.
I'v
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 15:39 +, Paul Mellors wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just because people want it, although not everyone, i'm setting up an
> unnoficial ubuntu-uk forum. Please can you send me off list, so not to
> upset anyone, a list of catagories that people would want. I don't want
> to up
Robert K. Day wrote:
>> The domain will be http://www.planetubuntu.uk
>
> As far as I'm aware, top-level .uk domains aren't available; you need to go
> for plabnetubuntu.co.uk, planetubuntu.org.uk or similar
>
> Robert
>
Yeah sorry robert it was a typo, should have been co.uk.
Paul
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> The domain will be http://www.planetubuntu.uk
As far as I'm aware, top-level .uk domains aren't available; you need to go
for plabnetubuntu.co.uk, planetubuntu.org.uk or similar
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Caroline Ford wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:10 +, Sean Miller wrote:
>> Ian wrote:
>>> But I was not here to make a date. And I see other top posting OK.
>>>
>> Indeed, I'm sure they do, but that doesn't negate the fact that in doing
>> so *they* also make life very difficult for Digest
: 05/11/2006 05:10:03
>
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
>
> Subject: [ubuntu-UK] top posting row (was Uk Loco team forums)
>
>
>
> Ian wrote:
>
> > You have and its appalling bad taste in my language.
>
> >
>
> Just to explain for a moment, Ian,
Caroline Ford wrote:
> Well this is the only email list I'm on that is so aggressive to
> newbies.
>
I wasn't trying to be aggressive... major apologies if you perceived me
to be... was actually trying to explain to Ian why top posting can be an
issue for some people... made a lot of effort to
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 08:10 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> > But I was not here to make a date. And I see other top posting OK.
> >
> Indeed, I'm sure they do, but that doesn't negate the fact that in doing
> so *they* also make life very difficult for Digest subscribers...
>
> But t
I am getting the 'oh dear what have I done feeling'
I never meant for this to happen, I did not mean to start a 'row'.
I have apologised once and will do so again, Ian I truly am sorry that
I have offended you. What I said was careless and I should not have
said it and I am sorry, unfortunately o
---Original Message---
From: Sean Miller
Date: 11/05/06 08:11:13
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-UK] top posting row (was Uk Loco team forums)
Ian wrote:
> But I was not here to make a date. And I see other top posting OK.
>
Indeed, I'm s
Ian wrote:
> But I was not here to make a date. And I see other top posting OK.
>
Indeed, I'm sure they do, but that doesn't negate the fact that in doing
so *they* also make life very difficult for Digest subscribers...
But the sarcastic response and the fact that you top posted again in
you
But I was not here to make a date. And I see other top posting OK.
---Original Message---
From: Sean Miller
Date: 05/11/2006 05:10:03
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-UK] top posting row (was Uk Loco team forums)
Ian wrote:
> You have and
Ian wrote:
> You have and its appalling bad taste in my language.
>
Just to explain for a moment, Ian, why people feel so passionately at
times about top posting in an e-mail list and as a result sometimes we
can end up with situations like this where one person feels "victimised"
or the like
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