[NTLK] Hit reply, subject, prune, send

Dennis Swaney romad at nvwisp.com
Tue Mar 24 11:13:18 EDT 2020


I agree with you on the top posting but in threads it makes it easy to read
the latest reply right away. Unfortunately it also makes it easy to hit
reply without the "squeeze, cut, and trim". Top posting reminds me of:
answer < question, or cart < horse!

Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

"Cogito Ergo Mac"


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:05 AM Grant Hutchinson <
newtontalkmessages at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 23, 2020, at 1:51 PM, Dennis Swaney <romad at nvwisp.com> wrote:
> >
> > Grant, in GMail the new reply is at the top so fortunately for me I don't
> > have to scroll to the bottom!
>
> Yeah, I’ve always hated top-posting in email threads ... unless the excess
> text hasn’t been trimmed properly.
>
> But that’s a personal preference ... like Oxford commas and Dijon mustard.
>
> g.
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