Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

["Stone Tool" <owly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I frankly don't know what the big deal about top posting is .......    If I
am following a thread I know pretty well what is going on and as a reader
of posts I find it irritating having to scroll down very far to read the
relevant content of the post.   Intelligent quoting goes with bottom
posting ...... The way most people quote it's a pain in the butt to scroll
down trying to find what they are saying, especially when it amounts to a
sentence here and a sentence there interspersed within a bunch of quoted
material.   I will always top post because that is the way I prefer to read
a post .... I can always reference the material below if necessary.   Guess
I have that defective gene!  Fortunately the email Nazis are not yet in
control to the degree that I have ever been bounced for top posting!

 ........   If you need reference quotes ..... read all the previous posts
on this subject It was not worth the bother of repeating them....

	There are a number of superior mail clients for windows.  I have tried
virtually all of them and find Calypsomail to be the best of the lot for
various reasons... mainly because I can shut off HTML and prevent scripts
from running.....  Send me a post in HTML and it gets trashed without being
opened unless I have a damn good reason to open it.   
	As a user in transition I use Windows for my mail to prevent the chaos of
having mail saved in a bunch of different programs.  Occasionally I use one
of the Linux programs if I have downloaded mail recently and the
probability of something important coming through is low.  I suspect quite
a few others do the same.   I would dearly love to have a Linux version of
Calypso ..... I think I'll try it under WINE tonight.    

							H.W.