-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 March 2008 01:48:40 pm jnewman wrote: > This is a fundamental difference between Forums and the mailing list. In > the forum, replies are always shown in ascending order by post time, so it > is not necessary to quote a post above it. It would probably be a good idea to enable quoting and remind forum users of proper quoting practices at least in the short term until a more permanent solution can be made. [1] > Mailing list users could work around this by configuring your email client > to show posts in a threaded view. Thunderbird supports this. That would work if the References weren't broken coming from the forum. [1] Really, conversational quoting is The Right Thing anytime asynchronous communications are involved; you never know how the parent to your reply or your reply will be mangled before your audience sees it. Mandatory conversational quoting probably wouldn't hurt in the long term... - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6t2gUCxPKZafKh0RAswzAJ0ep0wgcDdMAd5LMIPhyDgfJ0mK0QCgwdVL esMIPxz/NmLMoNR9OMAyrmk= =EHo/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
