Messengers and Music Players

[Jay Daniels]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:39 -0700, Minty Busby wrote:
> Steve's Topic:
> 
> Wanna talk about etiquette even though this is the wrong thread for
> it?  I
> just finished reading that in a thread somebody made for it, and I'm
> not
> here to annoy people.  I'm not immune to being annoyed, as you can now
> see,
> but I belong to far too many lists to keep "local customs" straight,
> so I've
> come up with an idea that should make everybody happy.  Even you!
> I've
> decided that I just won't include any quotes at all!  I'll simply
> include
> enough information in my own posts so others know what I'm talking
> about.
> If any quoted text is included in THIS post, that means Gmail has
> taken the
> matter into its own hands, and compliance with your "etiquette" is
> over my
> head.  I don't have any problem reading everybody's various methods of
> posting.  In fact, I find it comforting to see how many people here
> are
> human even though this list is about computers.  My brain functions
> sufficiently to decypher post orders of all reasonable sorts in real
> time,
> so I don't have to take the time to figure out where the quotes end or
> where
> the posts begin, or what elements in the quotes are being referred to
> by the
> poster (especially since I'm using Gmail, which sorts most of that out
> for
> me), and therefore, it poses nothing to annoy me.


Fire up Evolution and ditch the web interface of gmail.  Unless things
have changed, you give up a lot when using web based email like gmail.
Ever try printing?  I tried printing in gmail once and it's not what you
think it is, ie printing from/to/subject/body, or printing source, etc.


jay