From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4GwO-0003qo-I1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:13:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68F721C0F3; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E661C0F3 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so1369343gxk.40 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.78.136 with SMTP id g8mr1943834yhe.388.1301335921576; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari (adsl-152-61-103.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.61.103]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p4sm2055923yhm.87.2011.03.28.11.11.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:11:55 -0400 From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world Message-ID: <20110328181154.GA12312@gaurahari> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4599688edf05a3da7d098723c9b42b4b In linux.gentoo.user, Peter Humphries wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011 18:27:03 Elaine C. Sharpe wrote: > >> But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the >> "==20" crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost. > > Would you mind sending me an example of this from me and my kmail? > Apparently not everyone who uses kmail has the problem. Maybe it's the people who use html mail? Neil Bothwick's posts often have the "==20", but usually just one or two. Some posts are positively riddled with them, to the point of being terribly difficult to parse. Everytime I look at the headers of such a post it says kmail, but not every kmail user has the problem. It's also possible the nix-to-news gateway handles html poorly. Obviously, slrn is not supposed to handle html (which is how I like it). Overall the usenet experience of this list is poor, but of course the content is extremely useful. I just don't want all the email, because it'll end up on my phone and it'll cost me. Probably in the end I'll just end up reading it in a web browser. Lowest Common Denominator these days I guess... **sigh** -- ...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it. I decided, "this is the person I want to sit next to".