Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-25 Thread J S
uh what's this bottom-posting activity? if i build a barbed-wire fence, should I use bottom-posting? and what should I change of my toiletries? sign of the times, i suppose. take back this G-Mail; take back Joe Piscapo-- give 'em all some place to go. greasemonkey hmph! oh-- is this an

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 17:51 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: No, actually, those using Thunderbird (esp those who think bottom posting is a pain) should install the Quote Collapse add-on. If you need to read the collapsed quote, just click on the +. There is no substitute for posting a clearly

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/22/2010 03:48 PM, Tim wrote: The biggest sin is not editing out the quoted text that's not needed, not the posting style. Use the damn delete key, or we will use ours. IMHO you forgot to add IMHO since we've now entered the realm of opinion, IMHO. :-) -- YOW!! What should the entire

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Tim wrote: You can argue for bottom posting, but you usually have to scroll past lots of needlessly quoted text, as few people trim the quotes. And those that don't tend to be the ones that include 300 lines of quotes. Rather a lot of the noise on mailing lists is quoted

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-22 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:58 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: IMHO you forgot to add IMHO since we've now entered the realm of opinion, IMHO. :-) ;-) I think that it goes without saying that anything that someone expresses about something is an opinion. Usually their own, but it can be someone else's

Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material. It's still there if you need to read it, but generally you don't. ;-) I use Gmail in TB3, but someone asked me about bottom posting in Gmail, I give to him this solution. - Use Firefox - Install

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material.  It's still there if you need to read it, but generally you don't. ;-) I use Gmail in TB3, but someone asked me about bottom

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 07/21/2010 05:46 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material. It's still there if you need to read it, but generally you don't. ;-) I use Gmail in

Re: Bottom posting in Gmail [Was:Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...]

2010-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/21/2010 05:46 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material.