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2. Re: [OT] Top posting (was: Ping Juergen - bit.e functions)

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Sep 02, 2004
• 408 views
• Last edited Sep 03, 2004

Gmail threads everything, and if someone top posts, shows their
message, and a " - Show quoted text - " link hiding everything after
the message.

If someone interleaves their reply amongst the text they're replying
to, it'll show the whole thing. (but will hide the footer, or any
previous messages in the text that weren't changed)

So, if you replied to my message with a top post... I'd see the thread
on a page, with just your reply, and a link if I wanted to see the
entire text of the message. If I wanted to see what you replied to,
I'd just scroll up the page and look at the previous message in the
thread.

It's fairly groundbreaking, and I pity all of you who have to deal
with reading your messages one at a time. :o)
( I still have 3 invites left)


On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:02:59 +0200, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> > Heh, I guess I'm a bit guilty of that... Thing is - it's perfectly
> > readable to me, because of the way Gmail handles it...
> 
> Hmm...?  What does Gmail do? Does it reverse the quoting order?
> And now, after you replied by top posting, and I now reply by not top
> posting, can Gmail transform this post to nice readable text? 
> 
> > On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:56:00 +0200, Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> A: Because it considerably reduces the readability of the text.
> >> Q: Why?
> >> A: Top posting.
> >> Q: What is annoying in e-mail and news?
> >
> >
> > --
> > MrTrick
> 
> Regards,
>    Juergen
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
MrTrick