[arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

[Guus Snijders]

On 12-01-10 19:32, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders<gsnijders at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
>>
>> [top posting&  trimming ]
>>
>>> I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
>>> webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting
>>> replies and sending HTML emails. I have requested that they change the
>>> defaults, but haven't gotten any response. It isn't a big surprise
>>> though.
>>
>> Actually, it /is/ configurable in gmail.
>
> You can change the default to text, but bottom posting requires a
> greasemonkey script :S

Yes, but the fact that you have to delete the first (empty lines) is 
also a good reminder to trim the quoted part. After all; you have to 
scroll the same amount of text down as the readers will ;).


mvg,
    Guus