[ale] Changing Linux

[Jim Kinney]

On Sep 30, 2014 8:08 AM, "Ted W" <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/28/14 09:28, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to changing methods of email and cheap storage, top posting now
>> makes more sense.
>>
>> When storage was very costly, i.e., pre-Internet days, bottom posting
>> preserved the thread because the prior messages were deleted.
>>
>> Now with cheap storage, all emails can be kept in thread order and top
>> posting makes info retrieval easier.
>>
>> The world has changed. See bottom for more.
>> On Sep 28, 2014 9:16 AM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Gmail wants you to top-post.
>>> It is listening.  One wouldn't want to make it angry.
>>>
>>> Wolf Halton
>>>
>
>
> Except for those of us who run our own mail servers on a cheap VPS and
are too cheap to pay for more storage... Forever stuck in the world of
"delete messages from server"  ;)
>

+1
:-)
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> Ted W. <ted at xy0.org>
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