[Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

Mike Starr mike at writestarr.com
Thu Apr 9 17:07:52 CEST 2015


Great example (below) of why I don't like bottom posting

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Mike
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On 4/9/2015 9:49 AM, JB wrote:
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 4/9/15, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests
>   To: mailman-users at python.org
>   Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015, 9:46 AM
>   
>   On 04/09/2015 12:25 AM,
>   Danil Smirnov wrote:
>   > The solutions is
>   quite simple - use top-posting if you answering to
>   > the very whole message or thread (like
>   this).
>   > It will save your time and would
>   annoy nobody.
>   
>   
>   Except those who receive digests or prefer to
>   read the archives or
>   actually need the
>   quoted context to understand what you're talking
>   about.
>   
>   --
>   Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
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> I do not like top posting.  With TP I have to read backwards through a conversation to understand what is going on.  Makes no sense at all.
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