On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:15 AM, steve harley wrote: > 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>
It even has the canonical example of why not to top post. > >>> 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; I wonder if I have better than 1/2 a chance to mess things up with this sentence. > 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 I never knew that. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
