Expectation of privacy

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Bill Oliver wrote:

> On Thu, 2 May 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>>
>> BTW, one of them asks members not to top-post in replies ...

> Yeah, sorry.  This is the only mailinglist I belong to where folk still 
> obsess about it.  It's been interesting, over the years, to watch the 
> top-post fetish move from cutting edge to atavistic (and that's not a 
> criticism -- atavism isn't all bad).  I do try to remember, but sometimes 
> fail.

To be precise, "bottom-posting" should be "interleaved-posting".
Responses go just below stimuli.

Is it ok to obsess about trimming boilerplate?

> Most other lists to which I belong have given in to modern mailing 
> conventions, which largely have fallen to the dictates of Outlook (and even 
> alpine) defaults.

I'm using alpine and have not changed its defaults.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily