[QCLUG] Gentle reminder

[Arron Lorenz]

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Arron prepares to start a level 3 e-mail client flame war. I use gmail, as
long as the subject line stays intact It does all the work for me.

Regards,
Arron

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Noah Norris <preludelinux@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now ive always top posted and leave everything and its perfectly fine so
> in all honesty thats more a cosmetic thing then any rule. The main things
> would be plain text and keeping most posts to computer related things.
>
> The reason for top posting is people get your response on top can read it
> and scroll down if they need to see what went on anyway seems most programs
> tend to throw the start at the top including Gmail and thunderbird. also you
> could never include last post because most email clients will thread all
> mails with the same subject line ( Important not to change a subject line to
> keep material in same thread.)
>
> The reasons for bottom posting is people get to scroll threw all what was
> said (this can get to be long but sometimes snipping dont always work top
> posting can work better or removing all quoted text )  but this is the same
> as how threaded messages work so why repeat it again
>
> The reasons for deleting all quoted text is mostly if not everyone uses a
> mail client that threads (same subjected emails)  so each email is  can be
> viewed  without the need  to have the quoted text. plus allot of posts can
> get super long with log files and such .  For example gmail groups all
> messages together on one page so you can see the whole message so just
> seeing repeated text wastes space.
>
> 1) Plain text (some still use text based email clients and html really is
> not needed for a mailing list)
> 2) Keep subject the same so messages thread correctly
> 3)* the whole top post VRS bottom post and "quotes" post thing is kinda is
> dependent on situation and the way people process information and is
> something we mostly dont focus on too much we know everyone is different
> and  except them that way.
> 4) yes the mailing list is public. need to keep this in mind. a couple
> questions 1) i hope all email address are hidden or i hope thats changed to
> members only access like we need more spam ..... oh crap maybe thats why im
> getting phone calls all the time ... ive posted my phone number ...... oh
> well lol
> 5) Keep things computer related ( dont always have to be linux , new
> technology , games etc etc )
>



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