Re: [Evolution] Top Post - Bottom Post [ was Re: stability/Jewett ]

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:36:10AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> Sometimes, indeed, some of us just can't.  Like now, when I am reading mail on my Blackberry.
>
> The BB inserts the entire uneditable quote below your response.
What rubbish!  My very similar Nokia E71 allows me to bottom post
and/or edit the whole of the reply including quoted original message. 

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: evolution-list-bounces gnome org <evolution-list-bounces gnome org>
> To: evolution-list gnome org <evolution-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sun Oct 11 17:15:18 2009
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Top Post - Bottom Post [ was Re: stability/Jewett ]
>
> > > Top Post - Good
> > >                     Bottom Post - Good
> > > Mixing Top Post and Bottom Post - Bad
> > How about a thread where some people top-post and others bottom-post
> > (leading to a mixture of both styles in the same quoted message)? If
> > that is bad, why don't we just standardize ...
>
> Which is the entire point;  read any of the very good netiquette
> documents (even RFCs!).
>
> The *standard* is to bottom-post (or better: inline) your response.  But
> that clearly isn't going to happen.  We could "just standardize" - you
> just need to convince everyone who top-posts and also everyone who can't
> trim signatures and extraneous crap from their replies.
>
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