[Coco] Hey all

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 26 March 2010, Lothan wrote:
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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 :-)

Not really, kmail colors the text according to the quote level, with the 
newest in black.  Most of the rest is rendered in green here, but that is 
configurable.

>> In any case, I'd rather worry about what someone has to say than how
>> they choose to say it.
>>
>>> Sean

True Sean, but its a lot easier to follow the conversation this way.

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Cheers, Gene
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