How do you post correctly. Explain top posting so I can avoid doing it.

Donald Mugnai
1 Watermill Place Unit 124
Arlington MA 02476
donaldmug...@gmail.com

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu>
wrote:

> Hey.
>
> Please don't top-post on this list, it is really something ugly to
> do, imho.  That would be nice.  If you really want to include the
> entire message you respond to, you could set the internal S-nail
> variable *quote-as-attachment*, for example.  ^.^
>
> Donald Mugnai <donaldmug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  |How do you "configure the way the headline is displayed with the
> variable \
>  |of the same name[1]" In the s-nail.rc file? All I want to get is a
> correct
>  |timestamp for my messages instead of Dec 31.  Is this a configuration \
>  |issue? If so, what do you configure? What is name[1]? Thanks
>
> Weeell, after all i mean that if you read the manual ("$ man mail"
> or "$ man s-nail") at least a bit you would know about s-nail and
> settings -- i think "A starter" should be sufficient for this, as
> it "already bends those standard settings a bit towards more user
> friendliness and safety" in s-nail.rc.  And if you look in
> s-nail.rc then you see comments and the `set' command and how it
> sets variables.
>
> This makes me think that my words "if you actually set the
> datefield variable the Date: message header is used" should give
> you the right hint, and i have shown the complete command in my
> second response.
> Baby belly, baby belly.  Maybe the wording could be even simpler,
> and in the other window i have added some more explicit `set'
> references (as opposed to the plain word "Set"/"set") already in
> the Options section of the manual, but in general i think the
> wording hurdles are almost as low as they can get.
>
> For example, on Monday i made a bicycle tour and came along
> a pasture where a cow just had given birth to a young son, just
> a few seconds ago.  She was licking him dry etc.  So i stood there
> for the quarter of an hour until he stood up the first time.  But
> no.. actually not.  He fell pretty fast, and the mother looked
> at me somewhat enraged when i left the scene.  Actually i just
> drove to the other end of the pasture to say hello to the rest
> of the flock, and saw from there his first real standing.
> So i had to get back to this yesterday, and this young man
> actually had a real trauma! and ran, just two days old!, to
> overcome that i left when he was still lying!!  I really hope we
> did that fantastic boy!  He's right!  Yeah!!
>
> So you are saying i should offer wording for humans which have an
> intellectual capacity of less than a 20 minutes to 48 hours old
> young bull?  No, no i don't think i will do that.
>
> --steffen
>
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