>>....Rather than optimising how people post, I >>would be happy simply to stop the recent flood of lazy top posting.
>I don't know how other mail clients behave when it comes to hiding >various elements of messages, but for what it's worth: Wellp, in general, unless a top-posted post is something along the lines of "Thanks!" or "That works great!", in which case I'd just delete it immediately, it'd be something I wouldn't want to read backwards or upside-down, in which case I'd *also* delete it immediately. Ditto for 4 video-pages of nonstop '>'s, or what *appears* to be so but is in fact a line or two of actual reply but buried within with no blank lines to set them off. Or some cutesy html-formatted crap that makes real quoting difficult (blockquoted with indentation, left-border colored, etc.). Or worse, some B'harni-awful colorscheme like green-on-red, or *any* color on a blinding-white background. Make it hard for me to read, and I just won't read it. Simple. If enough people were to have their posts ignored if top-posted (or exhibiting any of the subsequent offenses), they might (eventually) be inclined to change. Simply rewarding bad behavior while complaining about it changes nothing. <sigh> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
