[mythtv-users] Why has no one implemented subtext commercial filtering?

[Allen Edwards]

I have yet to figure out if it is even possible to bottom post on this
iPod touch. I don't think it can be done

Allen


On 4/17/09, Rafael Moslin <rafmoslin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Totally off topic agreed but fun nonetheless. I normally do prefer to get
> rid of any quoted text entirely but somehow it slipped through in my
> previous email, even if I am using an intelligent email service as per the
> rather amusing Wikipedia entry on posting styles, love the quotation marks
> around intelligent.
>
> "For users of modern e-mail clients and "intelligent" e-mail services like
> Gmail, which display entire e-mail threads in logical order and hide
> previous content, the distinction between different posting styles is often
> now less relevant."
>
> Why is bottom posting bad for me personally? Well I'm not usually interested
> in wading through all the previous posts to get to the meat of the text, If
> I'm interested then I would have followed the thread and only require the
> new message. Perhaps I should go back 15 years to using cc:Mail or the
> likes. In all fairness if these where Usenet posts then the posting style is
> more critical with most news style posts when conversations are not threaded
> but hey, its 2008 and I'm using a current Linux distro with a modern email
> client not CPM with GEM desktop. Actually I can't believe I'm responding to
> this but all of the holier than thou individuals who bang on about posting
> styles, usually to disparage a person who is new to a list do get my goat on
> occasions, it should not be a stick to beat someone with, and I've become
> just as guilty by association with this email, for that I apologise.
>
> Rafael.
>