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 1QLbxu-0001FA-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 May 2011 14:06:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E83811C105; Sun, 15 May 2011 14:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.alltele.net (m1.alltele.net [85.30.0.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5F11C109 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 14:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([87.227.57.71]) by smtp.alltele.net (IceWarp 10.3.1 RC1) with ESMTP id YTU17301 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 16:05:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4DCFDD8C.1090709@coolmail.se> Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 16:05:00 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110510 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.77 required=7.00 tests=LOCALPART_IN_SUBJECT=1.56,RATWARE_RCVD_BONUS_SPC=1.00,MR_NOT_ATTRIBUTED_IP=0.20,NO_RDNS2=0.01,MR_DIFF_MID=1.00 version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (1.1) on smtp.alltele.net X-CTCH: RefID="str=0001.0A0B020B.4DCFDD8D.0158,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0"; Spam="Unknown"; VOD="Unknown" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4d6c2892f0cdbae3b8aaa90b28861f63 On 2011-05-15 14:59, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Indeed. And sometimes top-posting is *forced* (e.g., Google's >Java-based Gmail client -- it *totally* hides the replied-to message). > > Heck, using my E72's built-in mail client is only slightly better: >for reasons known to the makers only, replies do *not* get indented >using '>'. I have to manually put in a mark there. Yes, I know I'm trying to fight wind mills here (ref. to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote for those not in the know)... (I'm not happy with my current mail client either [Thunderbird]). I just added my comment to expand Florians suggestion, and the fact that most people on this list don't top-post but do not edit their mails so you have to scroll down, sometimes page after page to find the reply. But this is quite common on most lists today (and most lists are, sadly, much more tolerant towards top-posting). 'tis but a reflection of mine... >From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855: " - If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include the entire original! " Best regards Peter K