wrote: Bell C. Christofer EDT, 12:52:54PM at 2009 22, Mar Sun, On Chris --
> unnecessary. > I bottom-post out of force of habit, however, it's archaic and generally > post, I don't need to see it again. > unnecessary text (the quoted material). I just read it in the previous > annoying as it forces the reader to display a bunch of extraneous > In fact, reading bottom-posted threads in a *modern mail reader* is > It looks no different than a discussion forum or other normal conversation. > text. > Mail 4: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read > Mail 3: Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > Mail 2: A: Top-posting. > Mail 1: Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > Your example looks like this in a threaded mail reader: > doesn't mean everyone else has to be. ;-) > which, incidentally, support HTML email). Because *you* are a curmudgeon > ago. ;-) Top posting works well in a modern threaded mail reader (all of > This isn't true. Come enter the 21st Century, it started nearly a decade Shoot.. what the hell happened..?? :-) As to "untrimmed" posts, I use a little utility named t-prot that hides overlong quoted material by default so that I never get to see anything that doesn't fit on one screen .. and in the event I really need to take a look at it, I'm only a convenient Alt+0 away to make it reappear. But then, after having struggled with Microsoft Outlook clones for years I switched to mutt, an archaic mail reader, that I am foolish enough to think lets me handle fairly large volumes of mail a lot more efficiently than all that GUI stuff. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
