[vcf-midatlantic] How to Post

[J. Alexander Jacocks]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> On 11/02/2015 03:20 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> > It may be as I fear that some people
> > have devices or email software that makes bottom posting hard/impossible.
>
>   I respectfully submit that, if that's the case, the device or email
> software sucks and needs to be replaced.
>
>   I myself am using Thunderbird.  It takes just two or three seconds'
> worth of effort to properly format a reply, trimming all the "you wrote"
> lines, remove blank lines, etc.  There's little excuse for not doing so.
>  In a forum where it's very likely that the only thing people will ever
> know about you is what you type and how you type it, these things are
> important.
>
>   (Not "you" specifically of course, Bill, you're well-spoken and
> well-typed...others, not so much.)
>

To do bottom-posting on most recent webmail interfaces (including gmail,
which I use), you need to do some editing.  Not a big deal, but I assume
that most don't think about it.

I wish that it would re-become automatic, as that would make things much
easier, as it used to be.

- Alex
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