[Gambas-user] Top posting

[Fabien Bodard]

Le 11 mars 2015 08:37, "Rolf-Werner Eilert" <eilert-sprachen at ...221...> a
écrit :
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> Am 11.03.2015 06:54, schrieb richard terry:
> > On 11/03/15 14:37, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
> >> On 03/10/2015 07:37 PM, richard terry wrote:
> >>> Personally I like top-posting, some lists I"m on use it. I find it
> >>> easier to find out the last thing said rather than having to scroll
down
> >>> to the bottom of a long post. If the mail headers are up in the top
> >>> pain, and the text in the bottom pain its easy to just scroll down the
> >>> mail without having to constantly jump to the bottom pane to go down
to
> >>> the bottom.
> >> Oh, you really stepped in it now, Richard. Did someone finally port
> >> Outlook Express to Linux? I'm kidding, of course. To each their own,
but
> >> threads get crazy when top and bottom posting are mixed. It starts to
> >> appear random after a while. We need an entirely new mail protocol that
> >> fixes the top/bottom-posting issue AND spam. Because why not?
> >>
> > Ok, a bottom post.
> >
> >    Haven’t used  Windows on the desktop for nearly many many yrs, and
> > never used outlook!!!!
> >
> > I guess if the list wants bottom post, I"ll bottom post, after all
> > though I read the stuff every day I don't post much, but don't want to
> > inconvenience people.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
>
> For someone who comes later and has to find the clue to the thread, it's
> easier to follow with bottom posts. In all the company environments I
> know, however, top posts are made simply because both parties usually
> are informed about the topic and just want to read what the other side
> has written. Keeping the old posts is for documentary reasons - and
> sometimes laziness - only.
>
> For my own part, I prefer top posts when it has to be quick, but as I
> have learned mailing lists back in the time of Fidonet, I would prefer
> cutting everything of the old post(s) except the really relevant parts
> and inserting my own texts between.
>
> If someone introduced a new mail text protocol, this might be done with
> tags similar to html. This would leave the text readable in text-only
> mail clients or for the case something gets garbled. Newer programs
> could handle the tags and make it up like the message clients on
> smartphones do.
>
> For instance, we could use a simple %DATETIME% tag for a number of
> lines, and a #DATETIME# closing tag. Or would <DATETIME> </DATETIME> be
> better? Maybe one could even have a quoting system like that of the
> popular forums, including the name of the author etc. The mail client
> would then figure out which block of text belongs where, and the user
> could choose for top or bottom quote or whatever is preferred.
>
> Should we start a project in Gambas? :)
Why not ?... A library, a gui, a cgi
> Rolf
>
>
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