On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 10:32 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 12:02 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > > > With the move to mailman3, the list footer c
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 12:02 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
With the move to mailman3, the list footer cannot be set via
the web-based admin interface. I dug into the mail
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:29:27 -0700
Dave Stevens wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:07:01 -0700
> Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> > On 03/20/2018 07:49 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > >
> > > yes, in my client I highlight a point as I've done here then hit
> > > reply and get no cruft and just the point I
On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 14:17 +, chicago wrote:
> Don't quote the entire email. In fact, don't quote anything at all when you
> reply. On k-9 mail there's a little x button (in the default config) that I
> can click to get rid of all the quotes text.
No, *do* quote the part you are commentin
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:07:01 -0700
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 03/20/2018 07:49 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:29:29 -0400
> > Todd Zullinger wrote:
> >
> >>> If there's something you're replying to in particular,
> >>> maybe quote that one line but there's no need to quote th
On 03/21/2018 11:47 AM, chicago wrote:
yes, in my client I highlight a point as I've done here then hit
reply
and get no cruft and just the point I want to discuss. Claws mail.
(if
it's good enough for Richard Stallman it's good enough for me!)
Same in Evolution. In fact even the Gmail web c
On 03/20/2018 07:49 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:29:29 -0400
Todd Zullinger wrote:
If there's something you're replying to in particular,
maybe quote that one line but there's no need to quote the
entire thread so far in every email in the thread.
yes, in my client I highli
Il giorno gio 22 mar 2018 alle 0:47, Richard England
<"pdx.limey"@gmail.com> ha scritto:
On 03/21/2018 02:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Same in Evolution. In fact even the Gmail web client used to do this
when properly configured, but Google seem to have broken it now.
Same in Thunberbi
On 21 March 2018 at 23:49, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On 03/21/2018 02:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>> Same in Evolution. In fact even the Gmail web client used to do this
>>> when properly configured, but Google seem to have broken it now.
>>
>>
> It's a bit of a pain in gmail but I've gotte
>
> On 03/21/2018 02:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> Same in Evolution. In fact even the Gmail web client used to do this
>> when properly configured, but Google seem to have broken it now.
>
>
It's a bit of a pain in gmail but I've gotten used to it. After clicking
reply I use Ctl-A which e
On 03/21/2018 02:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Same in Evolution. In fact even the Gmail web client used to do this
when properly configured, but Google seem to have broken it now.
Same in Thunberbird.
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:49:26 -0700
Dave Stevens wrote:
> yes, in my client I highlight a point as I've done here then hit reply
> and get no cruft and just the point I want to discuss. Claws mail. (if
> it's good enough for Richard Stallman it's good enough for me!)
Wow - using Claws Mail since
On 03/21/2018 11:47 AM, chicago wrote:
>> yes, in my client I highlight a point as I've done here then hit
>> reply
>>> and get no cruft and just the point I want to discuss. Claws mail.
>> (if
>>> it's good enough for Richard Stallman it's good enough for me!)
>>
>> Same in Evolution. In fact even
> yes, in my client I highlight a point as I've done here then hit
>reply
>> and get no cruft and just the point I want to discuss. Claws mail.
>(if
>> it's good enough for Richard Stallman it's good enough for me!)
>
>Same in Evolution. In fact even the Gmail web client used to do this
>when prope
On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 12:02 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > With the move to mailman3, the list footer cannot be set via
> > > the web-based admin interface. I dug into the mailman3
> > > documentation and
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> With the move to mailman3, the list footer cannot be set via
>> the web-based admin interface. I dug into the mailman3
>> documentation and filed an infrastructure ticket to see
>> about adding guidelines link
On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 22:20 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Top-posting is specifically discouraged by the Guidelines
> > of this and other lists hosted by Fedora, not to mention
> > many other mailing lists of a technical nature. Pleas
On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 19:49 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:29:29 -0400
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
> > > If there's something you're replying to in particular,
> > > maybe quote that one line but there's no need to quote the
> > > entire thread so far in every email in the thre
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:29:29 -0400
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > If there's something you're replying to in particular,
> > maybe quote that one line but there's no need to quote the
> > entire thread so far in every email in the thread.
yes, in my client I highlight a point as I've done here the
chicago wrote:
> I think both top posting and bottom posting are asinine.
> The correct answer is to delete the quoted text and reply.
>
> If there's something you're replying to in particular,
> maybe quote that one line but there's no need to quote the
> entir
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Top-posting is specifically discouraged by the Guidelines
> of this and other lists hosted by Fedora, not to mention
> many other mailing lists of a technical nature. Please
> read:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Pro
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 14:35 +, Alan Cox wrote:
> It's also getting closer to the point a microprojector will fit into
> phone or tablet - now that will have fun opportunities !
I've seen one stuck into a video camera, so that you can watch what you
shot without having to figure out how the hel
> It seems tablets are mainly portrait and monitors are landscape, maybe
> this is why the devs put the icons down the side, gotta be some reason.
> There's room for both. I couldn't do blender, Inkscape, Scribus or
> Drupal on a tablet, touch screen or not.
Most tablets orient either way, even
On 04/12/11 04:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Protests about top-posting are usually accompanied by exhortations to
> trim quotes to what is relevant.
>
> poc
>
+1, Similar to this
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On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 14:17 +1100, Roger wrote:
> The Gnome3.2 discussion is, to me, a classic example of the reasons
> for top posting if only to reduce the clutter.
How exactly does it reduce the clutter? In my experience top-posters
*never* trim the quotes, so they just grow exponen
Of some curiosity is the adjacent discussion about tablets.
It seems tablets are mainly portrait and monitors are landscape, maybe
> Most serious artists I know use a wacom tablet and with a pressure
> sensitive stylus, these tablets could reasonably give you the essential
> Cintiq type of operat
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 14:17 +1100, Roger wrote:
> Of some curiosity is the adjacent discussion about tablets.
> It seems tablets are mainly portrait and monitors are landscape, maybe
> this is why the devs put the icons down the side, gotta be some reason.
> There's room for both. I couldn't do
e poster does not trim the post to
relevancy, so posts get to couple hundred words plus of historical
drivel, some dating back weeks.
Scrolling down through endless drivel to find the latest comment =
because the comment when found will inevitably be guff.
The Gnome3.2 discussion is, to me, a cla
On 11/28/2011 02:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/28/2011 10:58 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>> Well, I'm sure that some folks are of the opinion that the GNOME developers
>> attitudes and responses to user concerns are pretty fascist.
> Only those who use the term as a generic insult and haven't the
On 11/29/2011 12:35 AM, Matt Rose wrote:
>> Sorry POC for inserting here.
>>
>> I just want to congratulate all the participants in this thread and
>> resulting tangents. You've manged to hit at least 3 most often
>> recurring themes.
> I realize nothing can be done about the meta "Guidelines"
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 11:15 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 28.11.2011 09:12, schrieb les:
> > On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:00 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >> in business-communication top posting and TOFU is normally
> >> because with TOFU you need only the last m
On 11/28/2011 10:58 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> Well, I'm sure that some folks are of the opinion that the GNOME developers
> attitudes and responses to user concerns are pretty fascist.
Only those who use the term as a generic insult and haven't the
slightest idea what it means.
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On 11/28/2011 01:49 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/28/2011 05:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> The only thing missing is the confirmation of the Godwin's law. :-D
> Well, the number of people hating Gnome proves that Ugol's Law still
> works. Now, all we need is an example of Cole's Law
Well, I'm su
On 11/28/2011 05:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> The only thing missing is the confirmation of the Godwin's law. :-D
Well, the number of people hating Gnome proves that Ugol's Law still
works. Now, all we need is an example of Cole's Law.
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Just correcting the typo in the subject line
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> Sorry POC for inserting here.
>
> I just want to congratulate all the participants in this thread and
> resulting tangents. You've manged to hit at least 3 most often
> recurring themes.
I realize nothing can be done about the meta "Guidelines" thrash, but you
know, some would say that if s
On Monday 28 November 2011 20:03:02 Ed Greshko wrote:
> Sorry POC for inserting here.
>
> I just want to congratulate all the participants in this thread and
> resulting tangents. You've manged to hit at least 3 most often
> recurring themes.
>
>
>
> A. GNOME 3 is the most hated desktop
Sorry POC for inserting here.
I just want to congratulate all the participants in this thread and
resulting tangents. You've manged to hit at least 3 most often
recurring themes.
A. GNOME 3 is the most hated desktop since the introduction of KDE 4.
B. Licensing in Fedora. Or: Why c
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:49 +1100, Roger wrote:
> Also consider that with several contributors commenting on the same
> post it gets boring scrolling down each one through the same
> information
> Roger
That's why you edit. Whatever posting style you use, you need to edit.
You can't keep every si
Am 28.11.2011 12:47, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> 1) Business mail top-posts and quotes everything because that's the way
> Outlook works and to a significant percentage of business users
> "Outlook"and "Email" are synonyms. The single advantage to doing it this
> way is that you can shovel over
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#If_You_Are_Replying_to_a_Message
where it says:
Place each part of your reply after the text it addresses (i.e.,
NO Top-Posting, please see "Wikipedia - Top Posting" and links
therein for more on this).
Now of course
Also consider that with several contributors commenting on the same post
it gets boring scrolling down each one through the same information
Roger
in business-communication top posting and TOFU is normally
because with TOFU you need only the last mail of a conversation
and with the top-posting
Am 28.11.2011 09:12, schrieb les:
> On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:00 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> in business-communication top posting and TOFU is normally
>> because with TOFU you need only the last mail of a conversation
>> and with the top-posting you need not to scr
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:12:14 -0800
les wrote:
I love this mlist more and more!
all started with Fedora - time to blink and now we are behind this "querelle"
that is older than internet ;)
you are amazing, guys :)
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On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:00 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini:
> > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 +
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ)
> >> Let's see the ran
> | But side posting is more fun = It
> | and by far a more interesting = certainly
> | challenge, isn't it? = is
> |= more
> | {O,o} Ack! = challenging
> > -- = with
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On 11/27/2011 06:28 PM, jdow wrote:
> On 2011/11/27 15:42, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Well, considering that top posting | But side posting is more fun
> > is strongly discourages in the | and by far a more interesting
>
: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>> A: Top-posting.
>>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>
>> but only in mailing-lists and there only because not all are doing
On 11/27/2011 01:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini:
>>
>> A. Because people read from top to bottom.
>> Q. Why should I not top post?
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>
On Sunday 27 November 2011 20:00:20 Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini:
> > A. Because people read from top to bottom.
> > Q. Why should I not top post?
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Wh
ou installed all that stuff"
>>
>> Please get your attributions right. There's nothing of mine quoted here.
>
> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ)
> Let's see the rant's now.
>
Dam*! Not I have to find my asbestos suit and tinf
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:00:20 -0600 Reindl Harald
wrote:
>
>
> Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini:
> > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 +
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ)
> >> Let's see t
Am 27.11.2011 19:32, schrieb Maurizio Marini:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 +
> Frank Murphy wrote:
>
>> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ)
>> Let's see the rant's now.
>
> A. Because people read from top to bottom.
> Q. Why should
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:13:53 +
Frank Murphy wrote:
> That's what top-posting brings. (Not JZ)
> Let's see the rant's now.
A. Because people read from top to bottom.
Q. Why should I not top post?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Wh
On 27/11/11 17:08, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Possibly so someone can say
>>>>> "It's not bloated, you installed all that stuff"
>
> Please get your attributio
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 18:04:26 -0700,
jdow wrote:
> Don't care. You anal retentive types can simple be human and adapt rather
> than being an unadaptable machine. Don't you have better things to do than
> whine about top posting?
I think that was partly the point. Why
Don't care. You anal retentive types can simple be human and adapt rather
than being an unadaptable machine. Don't you have better things to do than
whine about top posting?
Or is it time for another side posted message?
{+_+}
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On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 13:01 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Has anyone considered trimming boilerplate?
Yes.
poc
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> JD wrote:
>
>> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>>> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On 10 October 2010 21:01, T
On 10/10/2010 09:40 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
> Has anyone ever noticed that gmail (and likely a lot of other online
JD wrote:
> Not to belabor the point, but everytime someone nudges an op not to
> top post, a whole chain of posts follows that really muddies the
> whole picture. There are plenty of people on this list who seem
> adamant that top posting is the natural way to go :)
Well, I'd ne
t (nor to
> neglect to trim what they quote once or trice. After that, not
> responding is what I try to do
Not to belabor the point, but everytime someone nudges an
op not to top post, a whole chain of posts follows that really
muddies the whole picture. There are plenty of people on th
James McKenzie wrote:
> On 10/10/10 1:42 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> Does it not send the list guidelines when you subscribe?
[...]
> No. But the link is at the bottom of every message sent out by the
> list server.
In fact, it does send the link to the guidelines in the welcome
message:
Welcome
On 10/10/2010 02:40 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Threading mail is very convenient, this is true, but this particular posting
> is a prime example of the disadvantage of bottom-posting. One has to scroll
> and scroll and scroll all the way to the very, very bottom before one can
> read what
On 10/11/2010 06:14 AM, Tim wrote:
> When someone actually means interspersed/interleaved quoting, then they
> should call it that. Don't use the wrong terminology.
I just call it "proper" quoting. :-) :-)
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On 10 October 2010 23:14, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 15:40 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>> Has anyone ever noticed that gmail (and likely a lot of other online
>> email services and desktop software) opens a gap at the top for typing
>> the response?
>
> That doesn't mean you have to
tom posting,"
when it's not (bottom posting is quoting a huge lump, and writing your
entire reply below the quote - the exact opposite of top posting). And
calling it the wrong thing causes people to bottom post when they should
intersperse.
When someone actually means interspersed/inter
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 13:55 -0700, JD wrote:
> Well, if we take a survey of the list and ask the question,
> how many will reply truthfully whether they read it or not?
> I only read it once very very long ago beore I even subscribed :)
> Hmmm... time for a refresher course :)
Yes, I have. And if
JD wrote:
> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>>
>> --
>> Sam
>>
>> On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
>>&
On 10/10/10 1:55 PM, JD wrote:
>On 10/10/2010 01:48 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>> On 10/10/10 1:42 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>>> On 10 October 2010 21:31, JDwrote:
>>>> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>>>>> You forgot
On 10/10/2010 01:48 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>On 10/10/10 1:42 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> On 10 October 2010 21:31, JD wrote:
>>>On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>>>> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>>>>
>
On 10/10/10 1:42 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 10 October 2010 21:31, JD wrote:
>> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>>> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On 10 October 2
On 10 October 2010 21:31, JD wrote:
> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>>
>> --
>> Sam
>>
>> On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew
On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>
> --
> Sam
>
> On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
>>> I'd really appreciate it if any
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 06/29/2010 07:48 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> "Fool." was deliberately ambiguous.
>> That was its point.
>
> For goodness' sake, we have enough accidental ambiguousness on this
> list without people adding it deliberately! Please stop.
Don't worr
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Joel Rees wrote:
> Mail User Agents are notoriously bad at the automatic quoting game
> (partly because different mail browsers implement quoting
It's what one does after the automatic quoting that counts.
I wouldn't expect a MUA to trim boilerplate for me.
I do that myself.
On 06/29/2010 07:48 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> "Fool." was deliberately ambiguous.
> That was its point.
For goodness' sake, we have enough accidental ambiguousness on this
list without people adding it deliberately! Please stop.
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On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 02:48:30 pm Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> "Fool." was deliberately ambiguous.
> That was its point.
>
> I stated that Carroll was smarter than you because
> Carroll noticed that "Fool." was top-posted.
> It was a clue.
> As I have little evidence regarding the smartness o
On 06/30/2010 07:10 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> In an ideal world, people would know why and how the tools they use
> should be used in certain ways when and where, and they would use
> their tools accordingly, and we would never need to question what
> their intent was.
>
That's why we have Vi
Mail User Agents are notoriously bad at the automatic quoting game
(partly because different mail browsers implement quoting
differently, partly because the 800 pound gorilla who joined the
internet game late has never understood it, partly because context
always has more effect than we exp
than Jesus Arocho.
>>>> The latter should answer my question.
>>>
>>> I am obviously missing a lot here. Michael, would you be so kind as to
>>> enlighten me so I can, if not increase my 'smartness' in your eyes, at
>>> least learn
on.
> >
> > I am obviously missing a lot here. Michael, would you be so kind as to
> > enlighten me so I can, if not increase my 'smartness' in your eyes, at
> > least learn where I erred?
>
> Yes, after you answer my question.
That I was a fool, presumably f
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Jesus Arocho wrote:
> On Monday, June 28, 2010 02:51:37 pm Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps it's a typo?
>>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376308.html
>>>
>>> (at the very top -- ahead of the "Frank Murphy said" line)
>>
>> 'Tain't a typo.
>> Th
On Monday, June 28, 2010 02:51:37 pm Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > Perhaps it's a typo?
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376308.html
> >
> > (at the very top -- ahead of the "Frank Murphy said" line)
>
> 'Tain't a typo.
> That said, Carroll Grigsby seems smarter than Je
On Monday, June 28, 2010 11:46:54 am Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > Who are you accusing me of calling a fool?
>
> Perhaps it's a typo?
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376308.html
>
> (at the very top -- ahead of the "Frank Murphy said" line)
>
Could be, if so, my apolog
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:27:12 -0500 (CDT)
> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Jesus Arocho wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, June 25, 2010 03:20:53 pm Michael Hennebry wrote:
Fool.
>>>
>>> Regardless of the relative merits of top or bo
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:27:12 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Jesus Arocho wrote:
>
> > On Friday, June 25, 2010 03:20:53 pm Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >> Fool.
> >>
> >
> > Regardless of the relative merits of top or bottom posting the
> > 'fool' comment is uncalled for
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Jesus Arocho wrote:
> On Friday, June 25, 2010 03:20:53 pm Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> Fool.
>>
>
> Regardless of the relative merits of top or bottom posting the 'fool' comment
> is uncalled for. How is it that such a trivial issue can drive us to such
> comments; unless perh
On Sunday, June 27, 2010 07:25:31 Dale J. Chatham wrote:
> Calling all net nazis...
>
> Sheesh!
Are you calling me a nazi? Why?
I offered a technical solution that can basically remove most of the top/bottom
posting problems in an automatic way, fitting the preferences of each user
individuall
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 10:53 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> While viewing any message in the thread, press the letter "k" on the
> keyboard. It's a shortcut for Message->Ignore Thread.
Does that have the benefit of also killing off thread hijacking? ;-)
(Where someone replies to a message, inste
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 10:53 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 06/27/2010 07:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote:
> >> On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >>> On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> If there are posts you
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 07:25 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
> Calling all net nazis...
[Please don't top-post on this list. Didn't you get the memo? :-]
If you read the OP's message you'll see his "solution" is entirely local
to each user. It has no effect on the list itself or on the list
archives
On 06/27/2010 07:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote:
>> On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>> On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
If there are posts you don't like think killfile.
>>>
>>> I keep hearing about this, how
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:57:31 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I like the unconscious irony of "if the context is clear". The *only*
> justification for top-posting is to be able to include the entire
> history of the thread in such a way as not to force the reader t
Calling all net nazis...
Sheesh!
On 06/27/2010 02:08 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday, June 25, 2010 00:50:10 JD wrote:
>
>> I see so many top-posting replies to threads, mixed with correct bottom
>> appended replies makes it very difficult to read a thread. Are ther
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 19:35 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 00:35 -0700, Julius Smith wrote:
>
> > * Top posting is more efficient for all if the context is clear
>
> Oh rubbish, it's just the easiest solution for the laziest. Nothing to
> do with "effic
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 14:05 +0530, steve wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >> If there are posts you don't like think killfile.
> >
> > I keep hearing about this, how does one do that in Thunderbird? A quick
> > google sea
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 00:35 -0700, Julius Smith wrote:
> * Top posting is more efficient for all if the context is clear
Oh rubbish, it's just the easiest solution for the laziest. Nothing to
do with "efficiency."
> * Top posting makes it easier to respond to only one p
On 06/27/2010 02:05 PM, steve wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>>> If there are posts you don't like think killfile.
>>
>> I keep hearing about this, how does one do that in Thunderbird? A quick
>> google search yielded
On 06/25/2010 01:48 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2010 12:52 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> If there are posts you don't like think killfile.
>
> I keep hearing about this, how does one do that in Thunderbird? A quick
> google search yielded some old threads leading up to no solutions or
>
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