On Thursday 29 December 2005 15:17, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:46 -0500, Robert Tate wrote:
> > The problem with bottom posting is that a lot (most) people don't pay
> > any attention to the 4th line of you link you point to below. We have
> > to scroll through page after page of old postings to get the new
> > information. I'm quoting that line below (the bold is mine):
>
> Right ... but here is the deal. MOST people who use mailing lists (and
> not just e-mail with MS Outlook :) want to read from the top of the page
> to the bottom (like a book).
>
> > "In addition to bottom-posting, it is customary to leave out non-
> > relevant parts of the message with regard to the reply, and to put the
> > reply directly beneath the quoted relevant parts."
>
> When post in the relevant places, you don't have to move to the top and
> the bottom of the e-mail to see the other things that post pertains
> too ... the entire message flows from top to bottom. (Exactly the way
> you would expect any document too)
>
> ALSO IMPORTANT ... don't post to the mailing list with HTML enabled in
> the posts ... this screws up the web enabled archives .... and causes
> people who read their e-mail as text (orc_orc comes to mind :) to not be
> able to read the mail at all.
>
> It is not very hard to add the list address as a contact, and send mail
> to that contact as "Text Only". It does take away the ability to have
> Bold characters ... BUT it is also good manners.
>
> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>
> Please be considerate to others :)
I so far haven't found a way to get KMail (I'm NOT using Outlook!) to post in
text mode only for this (and other lists). On my old system, RH7.2, I had it
set, but this CentOS system is still new and I can't find a way to set it.
Also, the address book dosn't have a place to set Text only entry for
contacts.
Also, I tried to start a new thread for this when I first replyed, but
couldn't find a way.
