[arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

[Damien Churchill]

2010/1/20 Johannes Held <mail at hehejo.de>:
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> Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88 at gmail.com>:
>> If I addopt bottom posting, I plan then to delete all but the most recent
>> post to keep thing conscise.
> Sure! That's the right(tm) way to do it. ;-)
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>> Actually I'm run into *MANY* of these huge long threads in a single
>> message to have a "Mee to" or "+1" at the bottom
> Yes, that's true. It's annoying to scroll down, search for the reply and then
> read a simple "+1". I wish, that those emails would be cropped and simply a
> "+1" (perhaps with a small description) is sent.
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>> Actually when you think about it, most blogs are all in reverse
>> chronical order which to me is the same thing as top-posting and
>> nobody seems to complain about that concept.
> Meh, I see comments on a blog more a as thought of the writer instead of
> discussions like here on ML.
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A forum thread (which displays in chronological order) is a pretty
close thing to a mailing list?