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 1Lyt6f-0007cp-1c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:36:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27898E0B7A; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029E9E0B7A for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so1451457gxk.10 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:36:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FfPRl+F+hd8UxcNEH8GHo64SCJbz/Sy6Hm4on783rIc=; b=adQqyxPC9cMZZMl/Foi9Uvl1Lof/5sqUO75WqePc0F5XPY1qB2FatN3M4JIizP/pR6 Wpv5WBoIpj/ZPtZNfSkANUdgDZpTCfGBmxNHk6AMaFJ6gbCEHOCl35K6KCISf/C9QbqT oUbmP4Z0f4MQ9Th3GNEmeft2ZONZuWLZCSGwE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=H2tNWOt2UJ/S+Y6BsYoHDRj44Bw4p6vqUsQeXi84gGUsiDtOvn0hrDAZfiXRYKkwBT /QJ2rse96/gO4isG36To2y10FPjhZ7uHFOR1mCEQ69FdZ5hjW6NauphX5+yyM06pTAC1 1XoIUVaWnpC+N6KuoJWalmFajFgW3sLHKmfQs= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.121.2 with SMTP id t2mr12908636ybc.9.1240947398730; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:36:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1004fb350904281226n6c265484n27c0edd328fd1d0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090428180343.GA8275@linux1> <20090428193929.37546812@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200904282100.00512.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49F75698.1060704@gmail.com> <1004fb350904281226n6c265484n27c0edd328fd1d0c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:36:38 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3a3e924f32de1cd8 Message-ID: <58965d8a0904281236q3812fe20hc611dfb3ddee1f0f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin... From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f647039b-19be-4d4a-bd7d-966fab909020 X-Archives-Hash: 48b3b2790ec8456a0bc6855cc530a834 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM, thomas blomme wrote: > 2009/4/28 Dale : >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: >>>> >>>>> As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, >>>>> because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip >>>>> over all of the quoted material. I find it more convenient sometimes to >>>>> hear the newest material first. >>>>> >>>> That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for >>>> top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be >>>> possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. >>>> >>> >>> I'm sure the regulars here will be quite happy to make an exception for the >>> few blind users we have. Just like we tolerate the BlackBerry users who cannot >>> post any other way. >>> >>> As for the rest who think it's their right to ignore long-established >>> unwritten (but no less valid) codes of conduct, I just do to them the same >>> thing I do to stupid users at work who refuse to use English: >>> >>> plonk. >>> >>> >>> >> >> And there is always the blacklist as well. Once added to that, it's >> hard to get back off the list. After all, if they send them a email to >> ask to get took off, they won't get the message. o_O >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> > > Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off? Gmail does proper quoting, it just puts the cursor in the wrong place by default (but the place most users want it, I would guess). Also as Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you have highlighted -- a great feature that I miss from my old OS/2 email client.