Threadtiquette

Ryan Dunn · 07 Jan 2011, 05:59 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: ryan at liftingfaces.com (Ryan Dunn)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:59:01 -0800
Subject: (urth) Threadtiquette
In-Reply-To: <4D2677DA.3090100 at gmail.com>
References: <476532.56723.qm at web84102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<eb1e17824129d1bb0db2461b6ea9ff24.squirrel at webmail.prismnet.com>
	<4D26691E.7090209 at verizon.net> <4D2677DA.3090100 at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1E5C602C-616B-494D-9C86-67F8DC838613 at liftingfaces.com>

I realize this is ironic, but this last post is the perfect example of something Antonio could have asked Dave offline, no need to ask this question to the list.

A lot of the clutter is from posts like this.

...ryan

On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> David Stockhoff wrote:
>> That may well be, but I have 2 settings on Thunderbird: Above and Below.
> 
> What is it that may well be?
> 
>> On 1/6/2011 5:56 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> From: "DAVID STOCKHOFF"<dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>>>> If only interleaving were so easy. I try to do it but Webmail makes it
>>>> difficult and Thunderbird isn't much better.
>>> I'm doing it in Webmail right now. If Thunderbird is set up properly, it
>>> is not difficult and I do it as often as a dozen times a day with minimal
>>> effort.
>> And I almost never use Thunderbird on this forum, since it stays at
>> home. My Webmail is crap. Sorry!
>>>> I sometimes resort to dashes,
>>>> and I hope that is effective.
>>>> Of course, I top-post because I am using email, and top-posting is best
>>>> for email, where I don't need to read my own question before I read the
>>>> response.
>>> This is only true when you never have more than one outstanding exchange
>>> per correspondent-subject, they are not shared outside of exclusive
>>> correspondent pairs, and exchanges are returned within the most reliable
>>> short term memory time-frame.
>>> 
>> I'd say it's true about half the time. No single model covers all cases.
>> 
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