On 2011-02-23 23:17 , Boris Liberman wrote:
On 2/23/2011 10:47 PM, steve harley wrote:
if i were to pick any emailism that irritates me, it would be
top-posting, and after that excessive quoting; but i dance with them --
even sometimes use them myself
What is it "top-posting"?
perhaps the most-discussed meta-topic in the history of email ;?>
there are countless references, and i wish i could find an eloquent
early flame war on the topic from the 80s, but this will do:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting>
since long before Thunderbird, i've clung to the notion that
_underscore_ indicates italics, but you've made me suddenly question
that ...
You can always install Thunderbird Portable, set it up and send yourself
some e-mail to check what I am saying.
i _am_ using Thunderbird; i had noticed in passing that in Thunderbird
/slashes/ make italics, but only when in the HTML view, and Tbird
sometimes fails to terminate the italics correctly; but i more often use
the plain text view; nonetheless by mentioning this you literally made
me rethink my old-school assumption that the _underscore_ was the best
way to indicate italics in plain text; each has its plusses --
/slashes/ are a better mnemonic for italics, but underlining (kin to
underscores, but can't be done in plain text) was the equivalent to
italics during the reign of the typewriter
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