Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-12 Thread Mike
> On Dec 11, 2015, at 7:12 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > > On 2015-Dec-11, at 4:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > It's a total waste of time having to re-read all the unnecessary crap many times just to get to a one sentence reply. >> >> IFF people were to be considerate

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Jules Richardson < jules.richardso...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't for the life of me get it to thread this list nicely. It works > everywhere else, and is reasonably capable, but for some posts here it > insists on starting a new thread for the same subject, or

RE: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Dave Wade
, Dave G4UGM > wrote: > > > > I have searched high and low for a decent e-mail client for Windows. > > All the ones I have tried suck in some way. Outlook will no longer let > > me post in-line on HTML mails. FreeBird won't look at calendars. Em is just > > a > pain. > > I

RE: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 01:47 PM 12/11/2015, Dave G4UGM wrote I have searched high and low for a decent e-mail client for Windows. I still use Eudora Pro. Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640 http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Mouse
> It's a total waste of time having to re-read all the unnecessary crap > many times just to get to a one sentence reply. That is _exactly_ why quotes should be trimmed for relevance. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML

RE: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Dave Wade
Sent: 10 December 2015 17:07 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: RE: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal > of a lifetime!!! > > > > > All the email clients I have are top posting g

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Fred Cisin
It's a total waste of time having to re-read all the unnecessary crap many times just to get to a one sentence reply. IFF people were to be considerate and delete/trim/remove all of the irrelevant parts of the quoted material, then the placement of the reply would not matter. We are arguing

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 December 2015 at 23:57, Dave Wade wrote: > In order to get buttons that let you go to the next message There's one on your keyboard. It's the big long rectangular one at the bottom. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email:

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Dec-11, at 4:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >>> It's a total waste of time having to re-read all the unnecessary crap >>> many times just to get to a one sentence reply. > > IFF people were to be considerate and delete/trim/remove all of the > irrelevant parts of the quoted material, then the

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 December 2015 at 23:48, Dave Wade wrote: > It does not make sense for the ply to come at the end. It's a total waste of > time having to re-read all the unnecessary crap many times just to get to a > one sentence reply. You don't. I don't. Any decent MUA suppresses

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Dec 11, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > >>> It's a total waste of time having to re-read all the unnecessary crap >>> many times just to get to a one sentence reply. > > IFF people were to be considerate and delete/trim/remove all of the > irrelevant parts of

RE: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mouse > Sent: 10 December 2015 01:32 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal > of a lifetime!!! > > >>

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Josh Dersch
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > On 10 December 2015 at 18:07, tony duell wrote: > > If your mail program doesn't let you scroll to the end of a message and > > start typing then it is fundametnally broken. It may not be

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-11 Thread Jules Richardson
On 12/11/2015 12:56 PM, Liam Proven wrote: On 11 December 2015 at 19:47, Dave G4UGM wrote: I have searched high and low for a decent e-mail client for Windows. All the ones I have tried suck in some way. Outlook will no longer let me post in-line on HTML mails. FreeBird

RE: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread tony duell
> All the email clients I have are top posting get with the times you guys I have no desire to 'get with the times' -- this is classiccmp after all. If your mail program doesn't let you scroll to the end of a message and start typing then it is fundametnally broken. It may not be convenient,

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread simon
sudo mv thread /dev/null On 09-12-15 22:58, Jay West wrote: Please make an effort not to top-post :| J -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Mark Wickens wrote: > I'm tempted to reply using ALLIN1 email just to give you all an idea how > really irritating some email clients can be! So glad I never had to use it. We had VMS MAIL and we liked it ! > It was all the rage in the

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread Mark Wickens
I'm tempted to reply using ALLIN1 email just to give you all an idea how really irritating some email clients can be! It was all the rage in the 80's however don't you know. Peace. Mark. On 10 Dec 2015 19:39, "simon" wrote: > sudo mv thread /dev/null > > On 09-12-15 22:58, Jay

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread Joseph Lang
> On Dec 9, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > > > >> On Dec 9, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote: >> >> on my phone it doesnt show the quoted text it hides it till i send or i >> would just delete the stuff out... >> >> and my

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 07:03 PM 12/9/2015, Joseph Lang wrote: >Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone? Top posting isn't bad if the poster edits his top posts so that only a line or two is quoted. If I see an entire message in a top post I junk that message unread. Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread David Griffith
On December 9, 2015 1:58:00 PM PST, Jay West wrote: > Please make an effort not to top-post :| > > J Hear! Hear! For you Android users, K9-Mail makes bottom-posting easy. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > This is a bit like the old toilet seat up/down argument... > > On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Jay West wrote: > > > Please make an effort not to top-post :| > > > > J > > > > After reviewing the 61 posts from the list I received this morning, I can only conclude that Johnny Billquist had the

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread Zane H. Healy
> On Dec 9, 2015, at 5:43 PM, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:03:04PM -0500, Joseph Lang wrote: >> >> Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone? I've never been able to >> figure it out. > > I've never figured it out either. My iPhone is great

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Dec 9, 2015, at 16:03 , Joseph Lang wrote: > > Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone? I've never been able to figure > it out. Just move the cursor under the quoted text and start typing. It's no different than using a keyboard, except that you use your

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:03:04PM -0500, Joseph Lang wrote: > Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone? I've never been able to > figure it out. I've never figured it out either. My iPhone is great for a lot of things. E-Mail isn't one of them. I stick with a PC and Mutt for e-mail.

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Mouse
>> All the email clients I have are top posting There are good civilized email clients available in plenty; if you don't happen to have any, I can only assume you can't be bothered. >> get with the times No. If your email client defaults to top-posting, it probably also defaults to

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
> On Dec 9, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote: > > on my phone it doesnt show the quoted text it hides it till i send or i > would just delete the stuff out... > > and my computer it seems to hide the stuff >> >> The iPhone does show what you are replying to, and

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Adrian Stoness wrote: All the email clients I have are top posting get with the times you guys "Get with the times" ??!? You should be able to get with the times of the kinds of computers that you are interested in. Top posting implies that you are only interested in

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Adrian Stoness
All the email clients I have are top posting get with the times you guys On Dec 9, 2015 6:19 PM, "Jules Richardson" wrote: > On 12/09/2015 06:03 PM, Joseph Lang wrote: > >> Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone? I've never been able to >> figure it out. >> >

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Jules Richardson
On 12/09/2015 06:03 PM, Joseph Lang wrote: Anybody know how to bottom post on an iPhone? I've never been able to figure it out. Turn it upside down?

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Adrian Stoness
U guys are fickle at times. Oldest computer history stuff I have is the last remaining model of a Phillips p1000 from 68 I've got a front panel of a 8i in pecies I found in a field that I'm slowly getting parts together to rebuild.. On Dec 9, 2015 6:26 PM, "Fred Cisin"

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread drlegendre .
"Top posting implies that you are only interested in computers from the 1990s or newer." In addition to being a sign of secretly harbored communist sympathies. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Adrian Stoness wrote: > >> All the email

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Adrian Stoness wrote: U guys are fickle at times. Oldest computer history stuff I have is the last remaining model of a Phillips p1000 from 68 I've got a front panel of a 8i in pecies I found in a field that I'm slowly getting parts together to rebuild.. and

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Gene Buckle
On 12/9/2015 1:58 PM, Jay West wrote: Please make an effort not to top-post :| J ...or we'll cut you. g.

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread dave
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Mike Stein wrote: - Original Message - From: "Fred Cisin" <ci...@xenosoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (wa

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Alexandre Souza
Off-Topic Posts" < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:05 PM >> Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! >> Deal of a lifetime!!! >> >> >> "Top posting implies that you are

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Geoff Oltmans
This is a bit like the old toilet seat up/down argument... On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Jay West wrote: > Please make an effort not to top-post :| > > J > >

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Mike Boyle once stated: > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***This e-mail transmission, including any > attachments, contains information that may be confidential or privileged. > The information is intended for the use of the individual or entity named > above. If

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Eric Smith
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Can I REFUSE to accept modern "reality"? Of course you can. Reality is by definition that which obstinately exists regardless of your beliefs or lack thereof. The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson: "I'm afraid, sir, you have

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin
on my phone it doesnt show the quoted text it hides it till i send or i would just delete the stuff out... On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Adrian Stoness wrote: and my computer it seems to hide the stuff I suspect that the culprit for THAT is the software that you are running, not the hardware.

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin
"Top posting implies that you are only interested in computers from the 1990s or newer." On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, drlegendre . wrote: In addition to being a sign of secretly harbored communist sympathies. I thought that it was the other way around

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Mike Stein wrote: I hear that Donald Trump top-posts... also Michael Dell Carly Fiorina Mark Zuckerberg Sarah Palin Meg Whitman Paris Hilton Bill Gates

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Fred Cisin
All the email clients I have are top posting On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Mouse wrote: There are good civilized email clients available in plenty; if you don't happen to have any, I can only assume you can't be bothered. get with the times No. Right on. Can I REFUSE to accept modern "reality"?

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Fred Cisin" <ci...@xenosoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!!