[GTALUG] email formatting [was Re: Keep X from going to sleep]

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I'm using alpine.  It runs in an xterm.

In the message I'm replying to, I cannot tell the quoted text from the new 
text.

This may be a "feature" of gmail.  I'm not sure what
"X-Mailer: Airmail (286)" signifies in Marcelo's email.

I had the same problem with Russell Reiter's postings.  Russell's
postings may have been fixed by his recent switch to k9.  I don't know
since now he's "top posting" (which I think is unfortunate in a
mailing list).  He previously responded-by-chunk, which I think is
great EXCEPT when quote and response are indistinguishable ("red"
doesn't work in plain ASCII).

Here's what I recommend:

- quote relevant chunks of what you are replying to

- add your response after the relevant chunk

- make sure that the quotes and replies are distinct, even in ASCII

- don't quote parts that you are not responding to

This is one way to be considerate of your audience.

Regardless of what I just said, I'm top-posting for this one example
so that you can see what I see.

| From: Marcelo Kalib <kalibslack at gmail.com>
| To: GTALUG Talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:01:04 -0300
| Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Keep X from going to sleep
| Reply-To: GTALUG Talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| 
| On 17 de março de 2015 at 08:56:01, William Witteman (wwitteman at gmail.com) wrote:
| Here's a problem I'm hoping to solve: 
| 
| When idle for some amount of time, X shuts down the screen. When a 
| program like VLC is playing a video (or even paused) this does not 
| happen. 
| 
| How can I tell X to never sleep? I just want it to send output down 
| that cable, constantly, forever. 
| 
| I manage screen burn and power wasting by turning off the monitor, but 
| when the screen goes to sleep, my inexpensive monitor (an LG) 
| sometimes has trouble noticing and won't display anything until X is 
| restarted, which is a pain. 
| 
| Probably not a X configuration, but a WM. What WM are you using?? You need to check the Power Save options, or something like that (depending on which WM).
| 
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