I only joined this mailing list yesterday and already I've witnessed a flame-war!
It's funny, I was reading through the emails one by one, thinking how annoying it was to to scroll quoted messages for every single email. I remember thinking: "oh, that's nice", when Neil didn't top-post. Obviously, my feelings weren't shared! :-) I personally prefer Sean Miller's style of quoting: only quote what you're responding to, and only one or two sentences, then include your reply. It eliminates unnecessary scrolling and and gives context in one go. If you don't need to quote anything, don't. It's a software problem, IMO. AFAIK, there's no use-case for quoting the entire message, as most email clients do by default. Clients should automatically delete quotes of entire email messages, and allow users to easily access the whole thread. I don't think this issue is going away until all email software is better designed, which might be never. So let's just try and be tolerant of each other's ignorance/laziness/preference. I think it's worth it. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
