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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:14 PM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
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> On 2011-09-14 19:04, Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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>> text from what you're replying to. Bottom posting is the standard on |
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>> many mailing lists because it allows a more natural flow of |
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> Yes, but... netiquette also says you should edit and trim away all text |
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> not necessary for the reply... I wish more would do that on the lists |
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> that I subscribe to but even very experienced people seem to have given |
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> up on this, or something... sigh! :-( |
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It's not always obvious that it's there, so sometimes it slips by me. |
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In GMail, for example, large swaths of nested conversation and the |
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like get hidden by '-Show quoted text-'. Hit reply, hit ctrl-End to |
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get to the bottom, reply...and not realize that you jumped past five |
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kilobytes' worth of stale, quoted conversation. |
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The fewer layers of irrelevant nested conversation left embedded, the |
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better. And the fewer nested "regards", "respectfully" and other |
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signatures, the better. |
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Now if only I could get GMail to not dedicate four lines to a two-line sig... |
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:wq |
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