On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:36:10AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > Sometimes, indeed, some of us just can't. Like now, when I am reading mail > on my Blackberry. > > The BB inserts the entire uneditable quote below your response. > What rubbish! My very similar Nokia E71 allows me to bottom post and/or edit the whole of the reply including quoted original message.
> -- > Art Alexion > MIS/Central Office Support > Resources for Human Development > (sent from my cell phone) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org <evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org> > To: evolution-list@gnome.org <evolution-list@gnome.org> > Sent: Sun Oct 11 17:15:18 2009 > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Top Post - Bottom Post [ was Re: stability/Jewett ] > > > > Top Post - Good > > > Bottom Post - Good > > > Mixing Top Post and Bottom Post - Bad > > How about a thread where some people top-post and others bottom-post > > (leading to a mixture of both styles in the same quoted message)? If > > that is bad, why don't we just standardize ... > > Which is the entire point; read any of the very good netiquette > documents (even RFCs!). > > The *standard* is to bottom-post (or better: inline) your response. But > that clearly isn't going to happen. We could "just standardize" - you > just need to convince everyone who top-posts and also everyone who can't > trim signatures and extraneous crap from their replies. > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
