On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:16:51 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: > >> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys > >> forgive me for the few times I answer on this list using my mobile > >> device. > > > > What? There's no down arrow on a BlackBerry? > > > > I don't have one of those devices, and fully intend to never have one, so > > if there's a stupid implementation of the reply function, I'd never know > > it. But just asking, that's all. > > There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the > "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the > reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. > This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does > show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses > Outlook, anyway)
haha, fat chance of that on a Gentoo list :-) > -- and some companies actually /require/ that style > of quoting, believe it or not. <sigh> I know. I work for one. email style is driven by the sales people. But us techies ignore the rules and do it our way anyway - we admin the mail relays > Replying to specific parts of an e-mail in Outlook (etc) is usually a > joke. People resort to strange combinations of colorizing, changing > fonts, emboldening, italicizing, etc. All of it is hideous and was > solved 30 years ago by simple indentation and nesting of quotes... > Thanks a lot, Microsoft. > > I use gmail for this and other mailing lists; it collapses quoted text > and shows e-mails in a conversational view. It really does a good job > of it and the top-posting and quoting-of-entire-emails really becomes > a non-issue. It's the next best thing to having everyone quote > properly. Yes, gmail is quite good at it in a browser. It's ben ages since I did that though - I pop my mail and just use the web end to scan the spam folder once a month -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
