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Bug 458828 - what is the "Top Posting Option"?
what is the "Top Posting Option"?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.12.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks: 236276
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-20 23:45 UTC by André Klapper
Modified: 2010-04-02 13:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description André Klapper 2007-07-20 23:45:01 UTC 
<b>Top Posting Option</b> (Not Recommended)

what does it mean? answering above the quoted message (everybody's doing this already, so i have no idea what this option would change)?
i have no idea...
Comment 1 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2007-11-05 09:02:10 UTC 
Good question. CC'ing myself.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2007-11-05 13:09:20 UTC 
at least add a translator comment to this.
Comment 3 Stephan Bird 2008-02-20 14:19:34 UTC 
Top posting is when you reply above an original e-mail, instead of interleaving comments, a bit like this

Subject: Re: vampire bats
From: igor@example.com

I agree.
-- 
igor@example.com      http://www.example.com/%7Eigor/
Dracula <vlad@example.com> wrote:
> All vampire bats should be given free sheep to feed on.


Top posting can violate the natural way in which people read postings, in a question / answer (or comment) setting, you don't answer someone's question before they ask it.


See perhaps http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html for more info
Comment 4 André Klapper 2008-02-20 16:31:53 UTC 
Stephan: I nowadays know what Top Posting is. But if you don't know that special term, you cannot translate it properly. And this is what this bug is about :)
Comment 5 Stephan Bird 2008-02-27 09:56:16 UTC 
My mistake, for some reason, the bug was showing up as "new" with a relatively recent date (January 2008, if I recall correctly). Sorry.
Comment 6 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:35:31 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2010-04-02 13:30:26 UTC 
I added a lame translator comment there. Do you have better? Give it to me or post to sources, I'm fine with both.

Created commit 1dbb706 in evo master (2.31.1+)