On 05-Jul-2010, at 10:09 PM, Nishit Dave wrote:
I am posting from the said gmail app, and it has no intention of allowing an option to bottom-post. That said, it is a bit rich to expect people to go through the hassle of switching on a computer and logging in to their mail client, just in order to submit a quip, when you yourself want to save the hassle of looking a line or two below. I understand the need to keep threads short, but if you dislike top posting so much, better start banning. That is a surefire way to make 2010 the year of Linux on the desktop.
I fully agree. No one is going to bother doing that. Most will simply stop responding to mails. Year of desktop ? You have some hope.
This list is full of fossils who stick to irrational rules that were set when only text based mails used to be run from large sub-mainframe computers and are not aware that the world has moved on.
Yes, most of the mobile clients do not allow bottom or interleaved posting as it does not put quoted text the way desktops do. On a small screen its not possible anyway.
On 7/1/10, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 01 July 2010 01:21 PM, steve wrote:
If it can't be done, that's still no excuse to top post. If there was something really that important to say you could've waited till you had access to a half-decent mail client to post a properly quoted reply.
Using some crappy software does not allow you the liberty to flout the rules.
I had once sent a reply from my mobile and it got top posted. After that I only read the messages on the cell, but reply from my comp.
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Rony.
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