[mythtv-users] OT: top/bottom/side posting - WAS Re: When is .20 coming?

[Steven Adeff]

On 8/17/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/18/06, jacob <jacob at heider.homelinux.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:51:19PM -0700, Rich Wilson wrote:
> > > Or use gmail to read this list. I rarely even notice whether someone
> > > has used top or bottom posting, because the previous messages have
> > > condensed into a small link "show quoted text" which is easy to
> ignore.
> >
> > gmail has the unenviable trait of not including any context in a
> response at
> > all.
>
> Umm, what? I'm using gmail and I assure you that it does indeed
> include the whole message your are responding to when you start a
> response. As you can probably see from the quoting above.
>
>
beyond gmail (which works wonderfully for mailing lists except it assumes
top posting...
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 =(

-- 
Steve
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