Don't care. You anal retentive types can simple be human and adapt rather
than being an unadaptable machine. Don't you have better things to do than
whine about top posting?
Or is it time for another side posted message?
{+_+}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Sharpe" <lists.redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, 2010/October/10 13:42
Subject: Re: ... why top-posting should be avoided... (was Re: Broken
mailreaders (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?))
> On 10 October 2010 21:31, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 10/10/2010 01:22 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
>>> You forgot to mention why top-posting should be avoided...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On 10 October 2010 21:01, Tim<ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 09:02 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
>>>>> I'd really appreciate it if anyone could explain why these things are
>>>>> happening and how I could configure the Zimbra Web Client to fix them.
>>>> You probably can't fix the threading problems, those things sound more
>>>> like faults, or badly designed software which simply doesn't do
>>>> everything that it should do with email. But the long line issue may be
>>>> a configuration option. All the things you brought up are mentioned
>>>> below.
>>>>
>>>> Threading - Mail clients insert a header, as they reply to a message,
>>>> that indicate which message you're replying to (the in-reply-to header
>>>> will be followed by its message id). And add the same message id to a
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>> Perhaps the list server, when sending a final confirmation of
>> subscription,
>> should include this reminder (I am sure there are other reminders that
>> everyone can think of). But this particular one has definitely caused
>> many
>> reply posts asking the OP to not top post.
>
> Does it not send the list guidelines when you subscribe?
>
> It's been a long while since I subscribed, but I vaguely remember it
> happening. I'm not entirely sure whether a confirmation email stating
> the guidelines is any more powerful than the fact every message states
> that top posting is "highly unwanted"
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Proper_posting_style)
> - people will still ignore it.
>
> FWIW, I seem to manage to flip quite happily between top posting (at
> work, Outlook, it's expected) and bottom posting (on this list and a
> few others) according to local custom. I just don't get why other
> people don't get it.
>
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