From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now, you have been warned!  [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?]
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:23:00 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at wsfa.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:08 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now, you have been warned! [was: Re:
[WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?]

> At 07:40 PM 3/27/05 -0800, Sam Pierce wrote:
> >Top posting is the default with some mail programs, such as Google
> >mail.
>
> And Lookout!  If you are only going to reply once, as is often the case
> with direct mail, that's ok.  On a mailing list, where you are likely to
> get multiple replies by multiple people it sucks.  Particularly when some
> top-post and some bottom post, and some intersperse...that's why the
> intersperse method got to be the standard many years ago, with ">"
> indenting to show who said what.  It's the most generally useful and
> bottom-posting is just a special case of it anyway, so it covers two of
the
> three options...only eliminating the one that's inherently the most
confusing.
>
> I have to use Lookout! for work...and when it tries to format things for
> top-posting I just edit them into proper format anyway.  Only takes a few
> mouse clicks and it saves others the trouble of fixing my posts when they
> reply to them.  Bill Gates should burn in hell (if such a place exists)
for
> bucking standards just to ghettoize his customers for easier preying
upon.
>
> >Gmail also threads the replies as long as the subject stays the same,
> >and hides the quoted text to simplify the message.  If it has embedded
> >replies those are often hidden as well, so the reader has to "unhide"
> >the quoted text.
>
> Ok, now I have a reason to hate Gmail, rather than as in the past where I
> only had reasons not to use it myself.  Now it's in the same class as
> "Lookout!" and "Lookout! Distress".

I'm slow.  It took me to your last line to realize that you were
complaining about Outlook and Outlook Express.  I have no idea why, in this
context.  Sure, your cursor begins above the quoted post, so you could
top-post, if you wanted to.  But it's dead easy to move the cursor to
anywhere you want it, to excise those parts you don't want to quote, and to
lop off the old signature line -- and any advertising, on other lists....

--Ted White