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Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sat Feb 20 22:51:31 UTC 2016


On 02/20/2016 02:23 PM, thibaut noah wrote:
> I personnaly NEVER quoted anyone in a mail before, and i'm using mails
> since 2005.

I wouldn't be bragging about that if I were you.  I was doing telephone 
tech support for an ISP back in '96, and nobody, including the suits was 
top posting back then.

> Gmail does not include this function by default, so why should people go
> into the trouble of having to search what parameters they have to use
> for a feature they never use?

Speak for yourself.  I use it all the time, and it doesn't take any 
searching.  Gmail sets up the reply for top posting, but there's nothing 
in the world stopping you from moving the cursor down to the bottom 
where it belongs, or from trimming extraneous text from what you quote. 
  (Again, I commend you for knowing how to keep your quoted text to 
what's relevant; I just wish that more of you kids would do it.  There's 
a song from the musical Bye Bye Birdie that's relevant here, but you'd 
probably find it offensive, with good reason, and I've no desire to 
descend to that level.)


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