OK..I hit reply to all just now and no editing done.   I only use Gmail for
VW stuff. Keep my bidness on POP and all other personal on Yahoo.  I have no
secrets, really and business email is behind firewall and exchange server. I
don't really mind the disclaimer at the bottom of the message as it prevents
postings to the list when soemone wants to opt-out.  I really hate seeing
Frank's out-of-office posts, though and those ARE alloiwed, it seems. My
.02.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM, David Marshall
<mailinglist@fastforward.ca>wrote:

> Michael
> You and Jim use Gmail, it certainly handles email differently that regular
> IMAP or POP3 email systems.  It goes by the header information of the email
> and strings it all together to provide you the full context of said message,
> well at least in theory.  The issue with that is if you take this email for
> example and hit reply changing the subject and the body there is a good
> possibility it will assume it the same conversion even though you mean to
> change it entirely and just wanted to recycle the email address
> information.  Personally I would never use Gmail or anything serious as all
> my email would be subject to the US Patroit Act to be read by big brother at
> random and without cause as well as Google's bots that read my email so they
> can display advertising suited just for me.  For the sake of convention and
> for consideration of others I will continue to remove the fluff and not the
> stuff from my emails.  Now if we can remove those stupid footers on each of
> these messages it would cetainly be more progress in the space wasted
> subject!
>
> David Marshall
> VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
>
> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>
> On Thu, December 18, 2008 05:02, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > I jam not seeing the posts combines and I use Gmail. I hit reply and only
> > the last post goes with it, i guess. Can someone tell me how my post
> > comes
> > through,PLease.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
> >
> >> At 08:20 PM 12/17/2008, Jim Arnott wrote...
> >>
> >>> Please folks, trim the excess off.
> >>>
> >>
> >> AND STOP TOP-POSTING like noobs. (not you, Jim)
> >>
> > --
>  > Michael in San Antonio
> > 91GL AT 'Gringo'
>

--
Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'

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