[Coco] Hey all

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> I try to do it on lengthy threads, but sometimes I'm also spoiled by
> Gmail, which hides quoted stuff automatically while reading.
>

yes, gmail does  a nice job of this.  I've become spoiled as well.

> Gmail is also another contributor of the long argument of people that
> like replying at the bottom vs. at the top.  But I've been using Pine
> for 20 years (CLI, non-GUI of course), and even that defaults to the
> top and is easier to read that way.  But I know there are several
> end-of-message-reply preferred folks here.  The war that shall never
> end. :)
>

The debate is usually not a  "top vs bottom" thing, its whether the
reply is put inline with responses beneath the portion of the message
that they are relevant to.  I tried to make a simple example with this
post.  Most heavy list users prefer it this way, and I tend to like it
better as well.  Easy to follow the conversation, especially in long
running threads.

In any case, I'd rather worry about what someone has to say than how
they choose to say it.

> Sean
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jason Law <jmlaw at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>> Yeah I'm guilty of that, sorry :) I thought it was some email program that
>> added those greater than signs.
>>
>> I'll try to make a better effort :)
>>
>>
>>>I'm convinced that the millions of people on the web who have a bad
>>>habit of quoting entire lengthy messages are not going to
>>>change.  :(   I tend to go further and condense the quoted text by
>>>removing blank lines and useless headers that have made it into the
>>>text.  Oh, and then you get the people who quote messages without
>>>embedding the quoted lines, so it appears as one seamless e-mail, and
>>>there's no way to determine who's saying what.
>>
>> --
>> ~ Roger Taylor
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