Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple footers accumulating on messages as discussion progresses - how to eliminate all but the last mailman footer?
At 11:06 PM 4/19/2012, you wrote:
Remember that top posting isn't the evil thing that some of you think it is, in some communities. There are legitimate reasons for doing it, just like there are for bottom posting -- but you wouldn't know that in the Linux world.
Dave
David Andrews wrote:
I agree, and I would never argue that top-posting is never appropriate, but I submit that for an email discussion list with archives and especially with digests where people routinely top-post, that little if anything would be lost and much would be gained if every post were stripped of all the quotes.
Part of the problem is MUAs that default to top posting over a quote of the entire message being replied to, and the users of those MUA's don't even know it's happening because they never read past the first signature.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM, David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> wrote:
Remember that top posting isn't the evil thing that some of you think it is,
Don't jump to conclusions: http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/IntroSES/socsys-8.html
The question is, why was there a problem, and it turns out not to have anything to do with *repeated* footers. It turns out the the real problem is that the quoted footers *vary*, in particular containing private information of other members.
David Andrews wrote:
I agree, and I would never argue that top-posting is never appropriate, but I submit that for an email discussion list with archives and especially with digests where people routinely top-post, that little if anything would be lost and much would be gained if every post were stripped of all the quotes.
Part of the problem is MUAs that default to top posting over a quote of the entire message being replied to, and the users of those MUA's don't even know it's happening because they never read past the first signature.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM, David Andrews <dandrews@visi.com> wrote:
Remember that top posting isn't the evil thing that some of you think it is,
Don't jump to conclusions: http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/IntroSES/socsys-8.html
The question is, why was there a problem, and it turns out not to have anything to do with *repeated* footers. It turns out the the real problem is that the quoted footers *vary*, in particular containing private information of other members.
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