[TriLUG] Digression: Top- vs Bottom-posting

Rick DeNatale rick.denatale at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 13:34:51 EDT 2004


Interestingly enough, Gmail seems to allow for collapsing quoted text
IF you top post. Otherwise it seems to get confused.

If a reply isn't top-posted, then it only seems to thing that test
after the signature is quoted, or maybe only anything you leave at the
end before your signature.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:30:50 -0400, Brian Henning
<brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:07:03 -0400, Brian Henning
> + > <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
>     [ imaginarily collapsed inline quoted text ]
> 
> - > But then again, with a Gmail like interface, it would be possible to
>   > collapse quoted text (perhaps with a length threshold) by default.
> 
> Now that would rock.  I love, for example, the IDEs that allow one to
> collapse comments and functions..  Collapsible (collapsable?  whatever) text
> r teh rox0r.
> 
> (I don't have a Gmail [beta] account to base any of these comments on..
> I've got no good reason to tell the inviters..so I'll just wait patiently)
> 
> Cheers,
> ~B
> 
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