[Coco] Hey all

[Lothan]

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From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:42 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Hey all

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I try to do it on lengthy threads, but sometimes I'm also spoiled by
>> Gmail, which hides quoted stuff automatically while reading.
>>
>
> yes, gmail does  a nice job of this.  I've become spoiled as well.
>
>> Gmail is also another contributor of the long argument of people that
>> like replying at the bottom vs. at the top.  But I've been using Pine
>> for 20 years (CLI, non-GUI of course), and even that defaults to the
>> top and is easier to read that way.  But I know there are several
>> end-of-message-reply preferred folks here.  The war that shall never
>> end. :)
>>
>
> The debate is usually not a  "top vs bottom" thing, its whether the
> reply is put inline with responses beneath the portion of the message
> that they are relevant to.  I tried to make a simple example with this
> post.  Most heavy list users prefer it this way, and I tend to like it
> better as well.  Easy to follow the conversation, especially in long
> running threads.

and is sometimes really hard to find the one liner reply in the chaff :-)

> In any case, I'd rather worry about what someone has to say than how
> they choose to say it.
>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jason Law <jmlaw at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>>> Yeah I'm guilty of that, sorry :) I thought it was some email program 
>>> that
>>> added those greater than signs.
>>>
>>> I'll try to make a better effort :)
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm convinced that the millions of people on the web who have a bad
>>>>habit of quoting entire lengthy messages are not going to
>>>>change.  :(   I tend to go further and condense the quoted text by
>>>>removing blank lines and useless headers that have made it into the
>>>>text.  Oh, and then you get the people who quote messages without
>>>>embedding the quoted lines, so it appears as one seamless e-mail, and
>>>>there's no way to determine who's saying what.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~ Roger Taylor
>>
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