Top Post vs Bottom Post (was: Fedora-18 -- how to install?)

Ansar Mohammed ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 5 20:46:04 UTC 2013


FWIW, you can complain all you like. I don't think anyone is going to
change their email client's configuration.

Keep fighting the good fight!

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 03:12:18PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> > I can't believe that you guys are having this conversation.
>
> I can't believe people keep top posting in HTML to a list that explicitly
> says not to.
>
> > It's not 1990. The majority of web, corporate and smartphone clients use
> > top posting.
>
> Who cares?  Just because the majority are being idiots, doesn't mean
> you should follow them.
>
> Top posting does NOT work for detailed technical discussions.  I have
> asked people at work to rewrite their emails because I could not tell
> what they wrote from what they replied to or what they were in fact
> replying to.
>
> If people can't write legible text (which is what email is), then I
> don't need to read what they wrote.
>
> If you insist on doing email from a device that isn't suitable for email,
> that's your problem, not mine.
>
> > Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to scroll down an entire email
> > thread that gets shifted bit by bit to the right on a smart phone?
>
> There isn't much to scroll when people trim appropriately.
>
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