On Fri,24.Jul.09, 12:12:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <4a69e030.7040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> >The standard and proper way on Debian mailing lists is to bottom post
> >and trim.
>
> I've read this before, and I wish it were true, but I don't think the De
On 2009-07-24 12:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a69e030.7040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
The standard and proper way on Debian mailing lists is to bottom post
and trim.
I've read this before, and I wish it were true, but I don't think the Debian
mailing l
Teemu Likonen :
> On 2009-07-23 17:46 (UTC), s. keeling wrote:
>
> >>> vim (from mutt) also puts the cursor at the beginning.
>
> > ... While emacs, called from mutt or slrn, puts it right at the start
> > of the body text. :-)
>
> These command-line text editors have +n option to choose the
Boyd writes:
> I've read this before, and I wish it were true, but I don't think the
> Debian mailing lists actually have an official policy on posting style.
It's a consensus standard. Not everything is formally official.
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In <4a69e030.7040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>The standard and proper way on Debian mailing lists is to bottom post
>and trim.
I've read this before, and I wish it were true, but I don't think the Debian
mailing lists actually have an official policy on posting styl
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Robert Baron wrote:
> Although I agree in general with the notions of interleaving posts and
> trimming quotes, this sometimes takes things out of context.
Only if it isn't done properly.
>
It is so nice to see that there is a religion to responding to emails -
analogous to the vi, emacs, wordstar,
religions.
Although I agree in general with the notions of interleaving posts and
trimming quotes, this sometimes takes things out of context. I find it
convenient to have the context o
On Qui, 23 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-22 13:28, S. Fishpaste wrote:
Agreed, even in the web interface Google provides an option to bottom post
via their options. One does have to set GMail to use plain text for that to
work though. Simple enough to do.
But even amongst the clueful
On 2009-07-22 13:28, S. Fishpaste wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:47:50 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote:
[snip]
Please keep a handle on top posting.
This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail.
You do
On 2009-07-23 17:46 (UTC), s. keeling wrote:
>>> vim (from mutt) also puts the cursor at the beginning.
> ... While emacs, called from mutt or slrn, puts it right at the start
> of the body text. :-)
These command-line text editors have +n option to choose the starting
line number, like this:
Celejar :
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:35 +0300
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > >
> > > The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the
> > > beginning of the quoted text so that you can
> > >
> > > - cut parts of it which ar
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:35 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> > The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the
> > beginning of the quoted text so that you can
> >
> > - cut parts of it which are not interesting for your rep
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:47:50 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user
wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Please keep a handle on top posting.
>>>
>>
>> This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail.
>>
>
> You don't HAVE to top
On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the
> beginning of the quoted text so that you can
>
> - cut parts of it which are not interesting for your reply
> - easily scroll to a position in the text where you want to start
On 2009-07-21 18:04 +0200, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Tony Baldwin wrote:
>> Using gmail, or any other webmail, is a poor excuse for not taking
>> two seconds to move the cursor and/or trim messages appropriately.
>
> Very well put. Thunderbird/IceDove has the option to start your reply
> below the quot
On 2009-07-21 11:04, Tim Tebbit wrote:
[snip]
Very well put. Thunderbird/IceDove has the option to start your reply
below the quote
And there's even a reply-to-list addon (though you have to perform
the magic handshake to get it to start doing what you want).
--
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-
On 2009-07-21 10:47, Tony Baldwin wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote:
[snip]
Please keep a handle on top posting.
This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail.
You don't HAVE to top post using gmail.
Note that I am using a gmail address (with imap
Tony Baldwin wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote:
[snip]
Please keep a handle on top posting.
This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail.
You don't HAVE to top post using gmail.
Note that I am using a gmail address (with imap via mutt or icedove,
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote:
[snip]
Please keep a handle on top posting.
This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail.
You don't HAVE to top post using gmail.
Note that I am using a gmail address (with imap via mutt or icedove,
usually, but still,
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