About my health, top posting vs bottom posting, and Ubuntu forums

[graysooner]

Good grief!  Enough!

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Mika Suomalainen <
mika.henrik.mainio at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 01.05.2012 21:08, Bhaskar Kandiyal kirjoitti:
> > I don't really like the whole idea of top-posting vs bottom-posting
> > thing, just let people do what they like.
> > And if you're really into following etiquettes then most guidelines
> > state that people should avoid HTML emails and yet people still send
> > HTML emails to this list. Also, I often see bottom-posted emails on
> > this list that don't have irrelevant stuff removed so you have to
> > scroll down all the way past the 4 or 5 quoted emails just to see a
> > one liner reply.
>
> But there are good reasons to bottom post. Bottom posting makes the post
> easier to read even for people who haven't read the full discussion.
>
> > Personally, I don't like HTML emails but those people using webmail
> > like Yahoo don't have a choice so I'm fine with it.
>
> I don't like it either. You are wrong about that, people who are using
> webmail *can* use plaintext.
> Debian wiki has instructions how to do that,
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#HowTo_send_plain_text_emails_to_the_list
>
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