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 - Instal

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 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 posting i

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 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

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 wrote: > On 07/21/2010 05:46 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: In fact, it makes top posting preferable since Gmail hides all the bottom posted material.  It's still there if you need to r

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 clear

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 quot

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'

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 op