[ubuntu-art] Top-posting gmail users

[Odysseus Flappington]

2009/2/23 Ryan Prior <ryanprior at gmail.com>:
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> Joseph wrote:
>> > Also can someone tell me how not to top post whatever that means, since
>> > I
>> > think i got screamed at for that before.
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>> You pretty much just move your cursor from where it starts to the bottom
>> of the page.
>>
>> Worked that way last time I use gmail through the web anyway. I use
>> Thunderbird now. I'm sure pretty regular web-gmail users could chime in.
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>> There should also be a way to remove the footer the list adds. (I wonder
>> if we shouldn't just turn that off altogether?)
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> I do think that we should turn the footer off. Furthermore, I think we
> should get rid of the [ubuntu-art] tag appended to the front of the emails
> and stop munging the reply-to header.
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> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
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>> -Cory K.
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Also, here's a question..

What's so bad about top-posting?

I'm on gmail, and gmail can view both types of replies.. Occasionally
you need to pay more attention to figure out whether the response is
above or below when looking through old replies.. but it's not the end
of the world.

Alex