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.<br><br>Regards,<br>Arron<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Noah Norris <<a href="mailto:preludelinux@gmail.com">preludelinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. <br>
<br>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.)<br>
<br>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<br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>1) Plain text (some still use text based email clients and html really is not needed for a mailing list)<br>2) Keep subject the same so messages thread correctly <br>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.<br>
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 <br>
5) Keep things computer related ( dont always have to be linux , new technology , games etc etc ) <br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>From:<br>Arron James Lorenz<br>Reel to Reel Drive In<br>Reach Global Networks LLC<br>563-579-7046