<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Something I can do in the near future is just create a new post regarding the subject at hand, eg; When I saw the various posts about Wubi I could have created a new email titled something like: "About changes in Wubi installation" Then I could make sure to include all needed addresses and say what I need to say :^) Sometimes I forget to "reply all" anyway, as Ali recently pointed out, so that may be the best option for me ATM. Lance PS: It's not easy NOT being the sharpest tool in the shed, but OTOH it's great to know that I'm not. That way I can still explain my limitations and they'll either be accepted or not ;^) Sometimes the elderly fail to recognize their limitations with disastrous results :^( --- On Sat, 4/28/12, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@fastmail.fm> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: About my health, top posting vs bottom posting, and Ubuntu forums To: "Jared Norris" <jrnorris@gmail.com> Cc: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012, 3:09 PM <div class="plainMail">On 04/28/2012 05:19 AM, Jared Norris wrote: > Top posting is discouraged in all Ubuntu mailing lists as it can make > conversations very difficult to read. ... So does failing to edit what you quote, so requiring readers to scroll through tens or hundreds of lines of the original message, trying to determine which part of it you are responding to. Please only quote enough to establish the context for your response. It is very rare that this principle leads to quoting all of the text in a lengthy message. The article you pointed to, <a href="http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html" target="_blank">http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html</a> , stresses in *bold* the need for: >> trimming your original message down yet you did not seem to do that. If someone has a neurological disorder that actively prevents them from quoting correctly, then I'd rather see their posts any way they can do it, than not see them participate at all. For the vast majority of us, learning to follow a few simple and long established conventions that make communication in email mailing lists efficient and effective is possible, appropriate and expected. These conventions include: * Use a meaningful subject line * Quote only what is needed to establish context for a response * Prefix all quoted material with a correct attribution line Any decent email client (including Sylpheed, the default email client in Lubuntu) will help with the mechanics of the attribution line, and with adding "> " quote prefixes to each line of quoted material. Creating good subject lines, and deciding exactly what small subset of a message to quote above your response to it, are both things that need human involvement. I note in passing that these conventions have existed on the Internet and Usenet since at least the mid 1980s, and so predate not just Ubuntu, but Linux itself. Let's all help one another to be productive email users, by following these conventions to the best of our ability. Jonathan -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>