On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 16:34 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > 2010/7/21 Phil Savoie <psavoie1783@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Makes a good argument for top posting, doesn't it? > > > > Just teasing... > > Personally, I wish people wouldn't quote much of anything at all > unless absolutely necessary to illustrate a point. Agreed. > I've moved into > the 20th century and read email in Gmail where threaded conversation > view makes quoting nearly completely unnecessary. Meanwhile, some of us prefer the 21st century (:-) but threaded conversations are not something introduced by Gmail. Every mailer I've ever used has threaded conversations. Maybe we're talking about different things. > In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the > bottom posted material. It's still there if you need to read it, but > generally you don't. ;-) With a threaded conversation you *don't* need it unless some specific part of it is being commented on, in which case top-posting just makes it harder. I say this as a user of Gmail who takes care not to top-post on list posts. That of course requires a tiny amount of work, so many, even most, webmail users don't bother. I'm pretty sure the original sin in this case can be traced to Outlook. For many users Outlook was their first experience of email (I'm talking about a decade or more ago) so they assumed that was the way it was supposed to work and when webmail came along it was designed to look similar. Another example of how MS dominance has made things worse instead of better. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
