On Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:41 PM, Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Reply at the bottom . . . and one in-line for fun.
> On Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:22 PM, Ray Holme <rayho...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately that will mean that all folks who use yahoo need to copy and
> > paste
> all messages.
>
> I have tried "reply" and "reply to conversation" but with
> the new yahoo paradigm (a couple months ago, they changed things) - it no
> longer
> allows me to post inside of an email as it did in the past.
>
This is an in-line reply with Yahoo's web mail interface.
> I understand your frustration and will try to always fully copy a message to
> an
> editor in order to allow me to edit and NOT top post.
>
> Apologies and my 1/2 cent.
>
> rah
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:44 PM, Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 1/23/2014 11:21 AM, Leo Donahue wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:08 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> it seems that we're spending more time lately asking people to not
>>> top-post, than actually providing answers to their questions.
>>>
>>> So I have a few suggestions of my own :
>>> - have the list software add a message in *bold* to all messages,
> indicating
>>> that top posts will be *ignored* ?
>>> - just ignore top-posts ?
>>> - drop the rule ?
>>>
>>
>> Does this topic go back to the usenet days of the early 80s? Top
>> posting vs bottom posting?
>>
>> It is so customary to simply reply to people in the MS Outlook world
>> that all of those people get used to top posting, because they know
>> nothing different, until they come here.
>>
>> I'm getting used to bottom posting, but it drives my co-workers crazy
>> and is not proper form where I work. I think this we might be chasing
>> the wind here.
>>
>> Leo
>
> There are probably lots of reasons for top-posting, and I don't think we
> can lay the blame on the MS Outlook world. The people I work with use a
> mixture of Thunderbird, web-based interfaces, and Outlook.
>
> Every one of them top-posts :-(.
>
> I think top-posting says a lot about the thought process of the poster.
> To me it says, "my issue, problem, answer, concern is of paramount
> importance. You should remember everything about my issue. After all, I
> remember everything about my issue."
>
> The attitude is probably not malicious, but more along the lines of a
> lack of perspective.
>
> Two things to consider when posting to a public mailing list:
>
> 1. There are lots of topics - people don't keep up with all of them
> 2. Many people have more pressing concerns - your issue isn't one of
> them
>
> In a work environment, top-posting may be rational since hopefully
> you're getting mail on issues of primary importance.
>
> In an open mailing list, bottom-posting or in-line posting makes sense
> because contributors are doing this on a voluntary basis (beats
> rewriting a build process in Maven for example :-p). Also, your concern
> is most likely not their concern. In short, the contributors aren't
> spending as many cycles on the issue as the original poster is.
>
> This goes along with providing a complete description of your
> environment and how you arrived at the problem. Within a work
> environment, there's shared knowledge. In a public mailing list, no one
> knows but the original poster.
>
> Oh, and brevity is probably a good model (shoot me now).
>
> . . . . just my two cents
> /mde/
Hmm,
I normally don't use the web interface. I access my Yahoo account via IMAP and
Thunderbird.
Just for kicks, I thought I would access it via the web interface and reply to
your message.
On a Windows box, Ctrl-End gets me to the end of the message. I then trim off
the mailing list footer, and finally type in my reply.
Voila - no top-posting.
I don't know about the tablet version or phone version of Yahoo! mail.
/mde/
My bad - I did NOT see the button to include message history. Sorry to all. And
I am not using a table, just the web interface with Linux. I dug a while and
there it was.
