[arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Mon Dec 19 12:11:08 EST 2011


On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:07:59 +0100
Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht at piing.fr> wrote:

> The 19/12/11, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> 
> > PS: I mean, you should ban them using your MUAs filters, but a list
> > shouldn't do.
> 
> Whatever the filtering purpose is about, any personal filter fails at
> the job because answers of others from a filtered mail aren't filtered.
> It breaks both threads and context. Not a solution.
> 

Here is a thought: Let us use ML to achieve something instead of spamming
users mailboxes with 30 messages/hour.

It is not the top/bottom/sideways posting, but discussions like these, what
make people unsubscribe.

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