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