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From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPF-yObk2aRg4HvQaUZMpUAjbv1biuw3_oFRqYKhw23M25P0Dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5667926-a166-e766-9fb3-ed0bccb2f5d1@gmail.com>

I hadn't heard the name 'interleaved' style, I think that used to be
called top-posting plus appropriate trimming.

I sympathize with folks who are frustrated with whippersnappers not
knowing email conventions.
(It's almost as bad as not knowing how to use a manual gearshift :-)
- Dan

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-25 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-21 22:30 alias appears to not work inside a called bash script Michel LaBarre
2017-08-21 22:53 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-21 22:55 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash scripty Duncan Roe
2017-08-22  1:01   ` Michel LaBarre
2017-08-22 14:31 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash script Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-22 14:47   ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 15:19     ` Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-22 16:46       ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 18:25         ` Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-25  0:37           ` Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING (was: alias appears to not work...) L A Walsh
2017-08-25 14:25             ` Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING cyg Simple
2017-08-25 16:43               ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2017-08-26  6:04               ` convenient trimming of quoted text to make points L A Walsh
2017-08-26 15:26                 ` cyg Simple
2017-09-01  4:54                   ` Duncan Roe
2017-09-01  7:37                     ` Csaba Raduly
2017-09-01 12:38                       ` cyg Simple
2017-08-22 17:08       ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash script cyg Simple
2017-08-22 17:14         ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 19:07           ` cyg Simple
2017-08-22 19:11             ` cyg Simple
2017-08-23 19:08               ` Eric Blake

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