In posting of the month John Hasler very perceptively said:
Then why do you send it?
There is no answer to that.
But being -user . . . .
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On Saturday 17 August 2013 00:22:21 Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
> > format to quoted text. This makes reading much easier.
>
> But those colors are picked by the reader, not the writer. When the
> writer says blue there isn't any c
On Saturday 17 August 2013 15:47:37 Kim Christensen wrote:
> > No! It's easier to read mails, when bottom or inline posting is
> > used
>
> I suggest another name for this -- "contextual quoting"!
I have always before heard it called interleaved posting.
Lisi
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On 2013-08-16 16:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> No! It's easier to read mails, when bottom or inline posting is
> used
I suggest another name for this -- "contextual quoting"!
That is, the art of only quoting what is needed for the sake of
argument/discus
point was the OP was claiming
> how the colors showed up on his system,
Yes. On HIS system. And I proposed an explanation of why these colors
showed up.
> and he expected the same colors to appear on other people's systems.
I did not read that. Any reference please ?
> And unlike yo
Pascal Hambourg writes:
> I do not care how it appears on YOUR system.
Then why do you send it?
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, the whole point was the OP was claiming
how the colors showed up on his system, and he expected the same colors
to appear on other people's systems.
And unlike you, I DO care how the message appears on your system.
That's why I use the appropriate quoting style and reply me
Jerry Stuckle a écrit :
> On 8/17/2013 6:33 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Bob Proulx a écrit :
>>> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
format to quoted text. This makes reading much easier.
>>> But those colors are picked by the
On 8/17/2013 6:33 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Bob Proulx a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
format to quoted text. This makes reading much easier.
But those colors are picked by the reader, not the writer.
The coloring al
Bob Proulx a écrit :
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
>> format to quoted text. This makes reading much easier.
>
> But those colors are picked by the reader, not the writer.
The coloring also applies to the quoted text in the re
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:35:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I need to apologise to the list. I was trying to alter my usual method of
> replying to the list to one that still worked properly, I thought. Clearly
> it didn't and I have broken the thread. So I shall resend the original of
> th
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 17:22 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > > Blue? You mean as in html email? Colors will be lost entirely when
> > > reading the mail as plain text.
> >
> > Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
>
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Bob Proulx a écrit :
> > Blue? You mean as in html email? Colors will be lost entirely when
> > reading the mail as plain text.
>
> Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
> format to quoted text. This makes reading much easier.
But thos
Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hopefully this will now not break the threading.
I looked at your original reply and I'm not sure how it broke anything;
I saw the usual References: line with valid information in the message
header, and I understand that's how threaded message readers bu
Hopefully this will now not break the threading.
On Friday 16 August 2013 17:10:33 David Guntner wrote:
> Regardless of those preferences, on a mailing list where you don't know
> what mail program someone reading is going to be using, it's always a
> bad idea to use HTML in posting a message. Su
I need to apologise to the list. I was trying to alter my usual method of
replying to the list to one that still worked properly, I thought. Clearly
it didn't and I have broken the thread. So I shall resend the original of
this by my usual method.
:-((
Lisi
On Friday 16 August 2013 17:29:5
On Friday 16 August 2013 17:10:33 David Guntner wrote:
> Regardless of those preferences, on a mailing list where you don't know
> what mail program someone reading is going to be using, it's always a
> bad idea to use HTML in posting a message. Sure, at this point the
> majority of mail readers c
Chris Bannister grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Subject adjusted to be more meaningfull.
Just as a side note, for a long time, the typical standard when changing
a subject line to reflect topic-drift evolution of a discussion has been
to change the subject thus:
Subject: New Subject (was Re: Old
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 14:07 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Top posting sucks.
> Bottom posting sucks even more : it's the same as top posting, except
> that you must scroll down to read the reply.
> Some mail/news readers such as Thunderbird can apply different color and
> format to quoted text.
Hello,
Bob Proulx a écrit :
> Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
>> Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled email.
>
> Not on technical mailing lists! The standard is conversational
> quoting.
Thanks, I missed such an expression to describe proper quoting.
Top posting sucks.
Bottom post
Subject adjusted to be more meaningfull.
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:35:07PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
>
> I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to
> have my posts unanswered.
>
> Introduction -
>
> Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled email.
Not on technical mailing lists! The standard is conversational
quoting. Here are some guides that I just now found after a quick
search.
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
http://email.a
On Qui, 15 Ago 2013, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Just set your email client up correctly. You don't need to do anything else,
except trim appropriately.
In the case of Icedove/Thunderbird, you don't even need to set
anything[0]. By default it does correct quoting, you just have to
press "Reply to li
Sorry, Ethan. I don't normally keep doing this. :-(
Sent to list where it should have been in the first place.
On Wednesday 14 August 2013 17:35:07 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
>
> I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to have
> my posts unanswered.
>
> Intr
On 14/08/13 18:30, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
I still do not understand
and really wish to be helpful.
If you could actually edit my sample, it would be DEEPLY APPRECIATED.
TIA
Ethan
Ethan
There are several aspects to this, maybe it's worth going through them
one by one (this list is prob
Hi Ethan :)
now I reply to my own mail and fake that I'm you.
Btw. I'm sorry the ">" signs of my example were written by hand and not
done by the MUA reply option and so it seems not to work as expected.
Your last mail shouldn't look like
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00503.html
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice.
Jerry wrote:
Tom wrote:
> Itchy wrote:
>> Scratchy wrote:
>>> I'm hungry. [snip]
>> I'm too.
> Let's cook Tux under the grill.
No, let's eat tofu.
Regards,
Jerry
CORRECTIONS:
First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too,
wh
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice.
Jerry wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> > Itchy wrote:
> >> Scratchy wrote:
> >>> I'm hungry. [snip]
> >> I'm too.
> > Let's cook Tux under the grill.
>
> No, let's eat tofu.
>
> Regards,
> Jerry
CORRECTIONS:
> First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied
Tom wrote:
> Itchy wrote:
>> Scratchy wrote:
>>> I'm hungry. [snip]
>> I'm too.
> Let's cook Tux under the grill.
No, let's eat tofu.
Regards,
Jerry
Explaination:
First Tom wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too,
while doing this Itchy snipped irrelevant content, since Tom
Jerry wrote:
> No, let's eat tofu.
Hi Jerry,
does it mean that we should eat veggie, or is it some kind of figure of
speech for being against tofu posting style?
Ciao,
Ralf
PS: You might notice that the ">"-sign is used no
"#---" or anything else, that it can be read from
to
Dear List -
I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to have
my posts unanswered.
Introduction -
Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled email. This is
the way my Thunderbird is set. Mail list requirements are the reverse
as I well know. Therefore, I
Paul Johnson wrote:
>Trim what you're not responding to, and
>respond conversationally, it'll make the threads *far* easier to
>follow and [...]
>actually recover context from it.
>
>http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html
>http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Good poin
OK, I think we took on a lot of newbies, or the regulars are getting
really bad about this. Your MUA puts the cursor of your editor at the
top of the message because people tend to read top-down to edit, not
as an excuse to top post. Trim what you're not responding to, and
respond conversationall
on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:26:35AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> > Please use postfix response and appropriate quoting
> > style.
>
> What the hell does that mean ?? 'appropriate quoting style&#
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