On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 17:59 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 16:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You completely removed any context and your message is unclear...
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with
brightly colored machine tools.
Or, put another way, there's a very good reason why the long-
established way to participate in a mailing list is quote the salient
bits of the prior email and directly reply to individual sentences or
paragraphs right underneath them. So that readers know what answers go
with which questions.
It's called interspersed replies.
It's NOT called bottom posting, which is merely the opposite of top
posting, where someone replies in one great slab below (bottom) or
above (top) the post. Either way is not helpful to understanding a
message.
Well put. This HyperKitty brokenness of not quoting in replies is
becoming a real annoyance. IMHO the only potential advantage in having
a web-based interface to the mailing list is if it encourages people to
respect the same conventions, which some webmail users seem to have
trouble with judging by the amount of top-posting we see. Otherwise
what's the point?
poc