[volunteergrid2-l] Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2

[Shawn Willden]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> People with manners trim and interleave where appropriate,
> retaining only enough info for context. Threading takes
> care of all the rest.


This used to be my position.  Gmail's approach to threading and
automatically collapsing previous discussion changes that, though.  When
interleaving isn't necessary, a top-posted thread actually works very well;
not only is no scrolling required, but a series of new messages show up in
a very readable manner in the thread display.

As a result, my normal approach is to trim and interleave when I need to
respond to specific pieces of a comment, or when the person I'm responding
to has done so.  Otherwise, I top post and rely on MUAs to hide the cruft
and make the thread readable.  I suppose that's unpleasant for people who
use a MUA that isn't as good as Gmail.  They should get a better one :-)

One other bit of e-mail etiquette that has changed over the last few years,
IMO, is HTML-formatted mail.  At one point there were enough people with
HTML-unaware agents that I thought it impolite to use HTML mail.  Now, I
think it's fine to send multi-part MIME mail that includes both HTML and
plain text versions.  Even MUAs that don't support HTML mail now all
understand multi-part and can display the plain text version.

-- 
Shawn
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