[Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

Tanstaafl tanstaafl at libertytrek.org
Wed Apr 15 18:41:17 CEST 2015


JB...

It makes 10,000% more sense than doing what you just did (untrimmed
bottom posting).

Your response only serves to provide massive ammunition for those
arguing *against* bottom (inline/interleaved) posting.

Charles

On 4/9/2015 10:49 AM, JB <jebva at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 4/9/15, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests
>  To: mailman-users at python.org
>  Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015, 9:46 AM
>  
>  On 04/09/2015 12:25 AM,
>  Danil Smirnov wrote:
>  > The solutions is
>  quite simple - use top-posting if you answering to
>  > the very whole message or thread (like
>  this).
>  > It will save your time and would
>  annoy nobody.
>  
>  
>  Except those who receive digests or prefer to
>  read the archives or
>  actually need the
>  quoted context to understand what you're talking
>  about.
>  
>  -- 
>  Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> 
>        The highway is for gamblers,
>  San
>  Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense -
>  B. Dylan
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> I do not like top posting.  With TP I have to read backwards through a conversation to understand what is going on.  Makes no sense at all.
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