[MPlayer-users] stop reproduction

[John Idarraga]

Hello Wanderer,

On 2/4/07, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> John Idarraga wrote:
>
> > please see below
>
> Naturally. There's no need for this kind of comment unless you expect
> that your reader(s) will be expecting to *not* find any comments below
> the quote - which in an ideal world would never be the case, and which
> is certainly not the case here.


indeed, indeed.

> On 2/4/07, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> John Idarraga wrote:
>
> >>> I apologize for the Top-posting ... didn't mean it ... I'm new on
> >>> this mail lists.
> >>
> >> And yet you just did it again...
> >
> > haha ... you're right ... sorry ... look, I don't understand ... is
> > this gmail thing.  How do I tell gmail not to do it ?
>
> How not to do what? Automatically start your reply above the quoted
> text?
>
> I have no idea; I don't use Gmail, in part because I don't like Webmail
> to begin with. However, that isn't the point.
>
> My mail client (Mozilla Mail, somewhat outdated by now) *also* starts my
> reply above the quoted text; I specifically have it set to do that. But
> I do *not* just type my reply there; I scroll down into the quote, snip
> out blank lines and irrelevant bits as appropriate, and reply that way.
>
> The only reason I have it set to start my reply above the quote is
> because having it start at the *end* would mean that I would have to
> scroll back up to the top in order to start replying to quoted points in
> order. It's purely a matter of convenience; starting at the bottom means
> a little more work to achieve the same goal, so I avoid that setting,
> and the only available alternative is starting at the top.
>
> > (ok this is a question that should probably go to a different mail
> > list)
>
> Yes, it probably should.
>
> (While you're at it, you might want to see what you can find on the
> practice of snipping.)
>
> As this is rather offtopic, this will be the last post I make in this
> thread, unless some truly exceptional comment is made.


probably not ... so we're all set.  Again, thanks a lot for your comments, I
learned a lot over here.

<snip quoted .sigs>


John

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> side of it.
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