On 8/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Hodge</b> <<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/18/06, jacob <<a href="mailto:jacob@heider.homelinux.net">jacob@heider.homelinux.net</a>> wrote:<br>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:51:19PM -0700, Rich Wilson wrote:<br>> > Or use gmail to read this list. I rarely even notice whether someone
<br>> > has used top or bottom posting, because the previous messages have<br>> > condensed into a small link "show quoted text" which is easy to ignore.<br>><br>> gmail has the unenviable trait of not including any context in a response at
<br>> all.<br><br>Umm, what? I'm using gmail and I assure you that it does indeed<br>include the whole message your are responding to when you start a<br>response. As you can probably see from the quoting above.<br><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all">beyond gmail (which works wonderfully for mailing lists except it assumes top posting...<br>The general standard for mailing lists has created email applications that properly handle the concept of bottom posting (as well as the signature demarker "-- ", which gmail doesn't pay attention to =(
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