12 Oct
2012
12 Oct
'12
12:55 p.m.
On 12 October 2012 19:56, MikeS <dm561 at torfree.net> wrote:
Please exempt me from "every one"; I find reading bottom posts a useless
waste of my time, since I've already previously read everything being
replied to and don't need/want to have to wade through it again. Many posts
on this list could express all they have to say with only the subject line
and "Me too" or "+1".
Then you're using a poor email client. Smarter ones can (optionally)
collapse or expand levels of previously-quote text. Gmail does this
automatically if it can tell that you've read the quoted text before,
for instance; I used to use an add-in for Thunderbird 2.x.
As regards colour, I hugely prefer the clarity of
messages where the new and
quoted text are different colours instead of ever-longer lines of >>>>>s.
In no way mutually exclusive; again, a good MUA can do that as an
optional feature.
A chacun son gout, as they say, but it seems to be a
characteristic of many
members of this hobby to cling fiercely to the old ways and waste bandwidth
over and over again complaining about the same tired issues and judging and
criticizing anyone who does things differently for what he/she considers
valid reasons.
In this case, actually, I think it's a sign that those who favour
top-posting are clinging on to poor-quality MUAs when they should
update to something better.
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