TOP POSTING

[wulfman]

Thunderbird has calendars now.


On 12/11/2015 11:47 AM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mouse
>> Sent: 10 December 2015 01:32
>> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>> Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal
>> of a lifetime!!!
>>
>>>> All the email clients I have are top posting
>> There are good civilized email clients available in plenty; if you don't
> happen
>> to have any, I can only assume you can't be bothered.
>>
> I have searched high and low for a decent e-mail client for Windows. All the
> ones I have tried suck in some way. Outlook will no longer let me post
> in-line on HTML mails. FreeBird won't look at calendars. Em is just a pain.
>
>
>>>> get with the times
>> No.
>>
>> If your email client defaults to top-posting, it probably also defaults to
> no-
>> trimming, which is possibly an even greater offense; take a few moments to
>> trim your quotes for relevance and put your text where it belongs (which
> is
>> inline after the parts you're responding to, not just moved to the
> bottom).  If
>> your email client won't let you do that, it is just plain broken and has
> no place
>> in civilized discourse.
>>
>> Or, of course, feel free to be as obnoxious as you want in how you format
>> your outbound email.  But everyone else is equally free to ignore you.  I
>> know I certainly am likely to, if you insist on top-posting and/or not
> trimming.
>>> Top posting implies that you are only interested in computers from the
>>> 1990s or newer.
>> Actually, it's just plain arrogant (and/or rude).  I've written up a piece
> which
>> describes how I see this, which is at ftp.rodents-
>> montreal.org:/mouse/blah/2012-09-26-1a.txt; the last three paragraphs are
>> especially relevant to this point.
>>
>> /~\ The ASCII				  Mouse
>> \ / Ribbon Campaign
>>  X  Against HTML		mouse at rodents-montreal.org
>> / \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
>


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