On 02/18/2013 12:13 PM, John Kasunich wrote:
> If you are trimming your posts, you are also trimming the ads.
> It took me about three seconds to click my mouse near the top
> of this message (after the part I wanted to keep), drag it
> to the bottom, and hit the delete key.
I'm using Thunderbird 1
On 24 February 2013 14:08, John Thornton wrote:
>>> News groups are about getting questions answered, and not long discourses
> I wonder what it is called when you split two quotes and post a point
> like this?
Do we need to start discussing the use of whitespace too?
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Why not do top posting, inline posting and bottom posting... oh that is
what we do.
Top posting makes more sense to me when giving a general reply to the
point just below and makes for faster reading.
On 2/24/2013 7:52 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 24 February 2013 13:40, Roland Jollivet wrote:
>>
On 24 February 2013 13:40, Roland Jollivet wrote:
> Top posting is great because it's the latest entry, and thus most relevant.
> News groups are about getting questions answered, and not long discourses
> aimed at late entrants. If someone picks up the thread months later, the
> onus should be on
Top posting is great because it's the latest entry, and thus most relevant.
News groups are about getting questions answered, and not long discourses
aimed at late entrants. If someone picks up the thread months later, the
onus should be on them to wade through the history to update themselves. A
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On 24.02.13 02:23, andy pugh wrote:
> That isn't the way it is meant to be. Bottom-posting (As you describe)
> is even worse than top-posting (which I despise).
It is Full-quoting which can make Bottom-posting about as bad as
top-posting, I think. (See sig)
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On 19 February 2013 18:31, John Thornton wrote:
> If I had to guess I'd say there is 20 times more traffic here than on
> the forum but so much is not on topic it is hard to stay focused. Then
> you have abby normal people like me that prefer top posting because I
> like to see the reply first an
On 2/19/2013 1:31 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> The forum is
> active enough that since it has been turned on there have been 29,984
> messages in 3150 subjects.
Wow. That's a huge increase over what I saw the last time I looked,
which I admit was donkeys' years ago. Guess I should sweep through it
Kent,
The forum seems to stay more focused on the question at hand and does
not drift off topic much and almost zero idle chit chat. It's a
different medium, and as for topics covered like the mailing list and
the IRC they are wide and varied. Are they the same topics as the
mailing list? Vary
On 2/18/2013 10:05 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> No, the forum is like the IRC and a separate communications medium that
> many prefer.
John:
All my email---and we're talking three different accounts---passes into
my client, which functions as a virtual one-stop-shop.
As it is, I barely have time
On 18.02.13 12:13, John Kasunich wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, at 10:06 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> > Another thing I dislike about the mailing list is all the ads that get
> > tacked onto each message like this:
>
> If you are trimming your posts, you are also trimming the ads.
> It took me abou
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013, at 10:06 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> Another thing I dislike about the mailing list is all the ads that get
> tacked onto each message like this:
If you are trimming your posts, you are also trimming the ads.
It took me about three seconds to click my mouse near the top
of th
John Thornton wrote:
> Another thing I dislike about the mailing list is all the ads that get
> tacked onto each message like this:
>
Yes, but that ad supports SourceForge. We are using the service for free.
Jon
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No, the forum is like the IRC and a separate communications medium that
many prefer.
You can't miss it if you tried when you visit linuxcnc.org...
John
On 2/18/2013 8:23 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 18.02.13 06:55, John Thornton wrote the following, but with a 37 line
> fullquote following
Another thing I dislike about the mailing list is all the ads that get
tacked onto each message like this:
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On 18.02.13 06:55, John Thornton wrote the following, but with a 37 line
fullquote following the 2 line reply. Here is how it's squeezed by t-prot:
>
> I use the delete key... and that is why I prefer the forum you don't
> have to wade through all the repeat posts.
>
> On 2/16/2013 6:05 AM, Erik
I use the delete key... and that is why I prefer the forum you don't
have to wade through all the repeat posts.
On 2/16/2013 6:05 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 16.02.13 11:32, Marshland Engineering wrote:
>> Hi Chaps. Could you please trim your posts. They are getting quite long at
>> this p
On 16.02.13 11:32, Marshland Engineering wrote:
> Hi Chaps. Could you please trim your posts. They are getting quite long at
> this point.
Fullquoting does give all of the list recipients a lot of repeated words
to wade through, and can lead to planet-wide cursing. But hobby lists
are not renown
Hi Chaps. Could you please trim your posts. They are getting quite long at this
point.
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